Lexic.us

Definition of Nonrational

1. Adjective. Not based on reason. "There is a great deal that is nonrational in modern culture"

2. Adjective. Obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation.

Definition of Nonrational

1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of non-rational) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nonrational

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonrational

nonrandomness nonrandomnesses nonraped nonrapid eye movement nonrapid eye movement sleep nonrapist nonrapists nonrarefied nonraster nonrated

nonratifiable nonratified nonratifying nonrating nonrational (current term) nonrationalistic nonrationalizable nonrationalized nonrationed nonraven

nonravens nonraw nonreacted nonreaction nonreactionary nonreactions nonreactive nonreactive depression nonreactivity

Literary usage of Nonrational

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. British Labor Conditions and Legislation During the War by Matthew Brown Hammond (1919)
"Confidence based on the existence of a large hoard of gold is to a considerable degree nonrational, but very many of the forces which make for value are ..."

2. Effects of the War on Money, Credit and Banking in France and the United States by Benjamin McAlester Anderson (1919)
"Confidence based on the existence of a large hoard of gold is to a considerable degree nonrational, but very many of the forces which make for value are ..."

3. Preliminary Economic Studies of the War by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Division of Economics and History (1919)
"Confidence based on the existence of a large hoard of gold is to a considerable degree nonrational, but very many of the forces which make for value are ..."

4. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society by American Philosophical Society (1771)
"Irrational or nonrational activities, however, were not arts. Plato excludes poetry from the arts because it followed no fixed rules and, therefore, ..."

5. The Essence of Stigler by George Joseph Stigler, Kurt R. Leube, Thomas Gale Moore (1986)
"... institutions under which they live; but it can also be viewed as nonrational because the political institutions they have devised are inefficient. ..."

6. A Pluralistic Universe: Hibbert Lectures to Manchester College on the by William James (1909)
"[If ‘irratio)zal' here means simply ‘nonrational,' or non-deduci ble from the essence of either term singly, it is no reproach; if it means ‘contradicting' ..."

7. Problems and Persons by Wilfrid Philip Ward (1903)
"... as the first appearance of consciousness, and of reason, as developments from the unconscious and the nonrational, were strides in organic evolution. ..."

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