antirational

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ rational.

Adjective

antirational (comparative more antirational, superlative most antirational)

1. Lacking or (especially) opposed to reason and rational thought.
   • 1839 November, “G.E.E.”, “Article III — Tracts for the Times. […]” (book review), in The Christian Examiner and General Review, Volume XXVII, Number II, pages 196-197:

     This view is further illustrated by bringing forward the Catholic doctrines, showing the “antirational notion of them,”^[sic] and thus exhibiting “the mysterious bearings and incomplete character of the Revelation.”

   • 1995, Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical, Penn State Press, ISBN 978-0-271-01441-8, page 328:

     Rand refused to detach even a seemingly radical rebellion from the social totality in which it emerged. The New Left was as much an outgrowth of the antirational as the culture it had rejected.

   • 2009, Eugene Webb, Worldview and Mind: Religious Thought and Psychological Development, University of Missouri Press, ISBN 978-0-8262-1833-9, page 61:

     His own conception of a genuine (fifth order) postmodernism is not at all antirational and embraces everything that was a source of real strength in the fourth (“modern”) order of consciousness.

2. (mathematics) This word needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
   • 1993, Masayoshi Nagata, Theory of Commutative Fields, AMS Bookstore, ISBN 9780821845721, page 125:

     We say that a field K is antirational over its subfield k if it does not happen that there are a finite algebraic extension K′ of K, an intermediate field K′′ between k and K′, and an element t such that K′ = K′′(t) and t is transcendental over K′′. Namely, K is not antirational over k if there are such K′, K′′, and t.

See also

• arational
• irrational
• non-rational