irrationality
irrationality Lexical Profile
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• noun
The quality or state of being illogical, unreasonable, or lacking sound judgment.
"Behavioral economists study how human irrationality influences financial decision-making during market panics."
An irrational belief, thought, action, or habit.
"The novel gently satirizes the everyday irrationalities and contradictions of modern bureaucratic life."
In mathematics, the property of a real number whereby it cannot be expressed as the exact ratio of two integers.
"Ancient Greek mathematicians were famously troubled by the discovery of the irrationality of the square root of two."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin irrationalitatem, from Latin irrationalis ('without reason'), formed from the privative prefix in- ('not') and rationalis ('of or belonging to reason').