| 单词 |
irrationalism |
| 释义 |
irrationalism|ɪˈræʃənəlɪz(ə)m|
[f. prec. + -ism.]
A system of belief or action that disregards or contradicts rational principles; irrationality.
1811Shelley in Dowden Life (1887) I. 151 He is nothing, no -ist, professes no -ism but superbism and irrationalism. 1846Hare Mission Comf. (1850) 311 The reaction from the dry prosaic spirit of the last century having produced a craving for all manner of extravagant follies..this shall be signalized as the Age of Irrationalism. 1853(title) The Irrationalism of Infidelity.
So iˈrrationalist [see -ist]. Also attrib. or as adj.
1836Hor. Smith Tin Trump. (1876) 307 These irrationalists seem to think, that the intellectual faculties of man are like hemlock and henbane. 1839Whately Dangers Chr. Faith (1857) I. ix. 38 We may..call the one of these a ‘Rationalist’, and the other an ‘Irrationalist’. 1897H. M. Cecil (title) Pseudo-philosophy at the end of the nineteenth century: an irrationalist trio: Kidd, Drummond, Balfour. 1910W. James Mem. & Stud. (1911) xv. 392 Listen for a moment to such irrationalist deliverances on his part as these. |
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