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irrationality

/ih-rash-uh-nal-i-tee/US // ɪˌræʃ əˈnæl ɪ ti //UK // (ɪˌræʃəˈnælɪtɪ) //

不合理性,不合情理,无理取闹,不理性

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ir·ra·tion·al·i·ties for 2.

    • : the quality or condition of being irrational.
    • : an irrational, illogical, or absurd action, thought, etc.

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Examples

  • A prolonged stigma surrounding menopause symptoms has made some women feel that the term is still associated with traits like irrationality and illness in the workplace.

  • If you think of irrationality as a consumer good, much like a car or a television, you can better understand why people sometimes say and do crazy things.

  • Many of the rioters will face legal consequences for their actions, raising the price of their irrationality.

  • Once their price of being irrational went up, the outlets immediately started “consuming” less irrationality.

  • After all, doing so would make them complicit in irrationality, which is against their religion.

  • Absent a complete ban, or total irrationality, judges should simply step off the seesaw.

  • Billionaire investor expresses impatient with deadlock, but says investors expect limited irrationality from D.C.

  • There is an honorable dimension to daring rooted in vanity, to reckless boldness, to irrationality in the service of an ideal.

  • Reality television has never been tame, but aggression, irrationality, and even violence is on the increase.

  • It is evident that the irrationality of frequent appeals to expensive and bothersome litigation should arouse suspicion.

  • The imbecile irrationality of this will not have escaped you.

  • It may have been a mere passing whim or fancy, done in a moment of weakness or emotion or temporary irrationality.

  • It would seem as if fashion never could take repose but in supreme irrationality.

  • I exclaimed, vexed by the irrationality, as it seemed to me, of this homely boatman's philosophic views.