Unreason

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unreason \Un*rea"son\, n. [Pref. un- not + reason.]
     Want of reason; unreasonableness; absurdity.
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     {Abbot of Unreason}. See {Abbot of Misrule}, under {Abbot}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unreason \Un*rea"son\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + reason.]
     To undo, disprove, or refute by reasoning. [Obs.]
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           To unreason the equity of God's proceedings. --South.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unreason
       n : the state of being irrational; lacking powers of
           understanding [syn: {irrationality}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  27 Moby Thesaurus words for "unreason":
     callowness, childishness, immaturity, imprudence, inadvisability,
     inattention, inconsideration, indiscreetness, indiscretion,
     inexpedience, injudiciousness, irrationality, pompousness,
     puerility, reasonlessness, recklessness, senselessness, stuffiness,
     thoughtlessness, unintelligence, unreasonableness, unsensibleness,
     unsoundness, unthoughtfulness, unwisdom, unwiseness, witlessness