Unreason

Quick meaning: Unreason is a noun meaning Lack of reason or rationality; unreasonableness; irrationality.

Meaning

Lack of reason or rationality; unreasonableness; irrationality.

More Meanings

1. Nonsense; folly; absurdity.
2. (transitive, rare) To prove to be unreasonable; disprove by argument.
3. (rare) To apply false logic or think without logic.
4. (rare) To make unreasonable; to deprive of reason.

Example Sentences

The best preservative for unreason is to make a religion of it.

What is called the great popular heart was awakened, that indefinable something which may be, according to circumstances, the highest reason or the most brutish unreason.

The reason of the unreasonable usage my reason has met with, so unreasons my reason, that I have reason to complain of your beauty :" and how did he enjoy the following flower of composition ! "

c. 1566, John Knox, The Historie of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland, Book I, London: 1644, Another day the same Frier made another Sermon of the Abbot of Unreason, unto whom, and whose Laws, he compareth Prelats of that age; for they were subject to no Laws, no more than was the Abbot of Unreason.

Word Forms

• unreasons
• unreasoning
• unreasoned

Synonyms for unreason

Depending on context, synonyms include irrationality.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include irrationality, unreasoningness, unreasonableness, unreasonability, unrationality, irrationability.

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