irrationalismn.
/ɪˈraʃənəlɪz(ə)m/ A system of belief or action that disregards or contradicts rational principles; irrationality.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > rationalism > [noun] > irrationalism and its adherents
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1811 P. B. Shelley in Dowden Life (1887) I. 151 He is nothing, no -ist, professes no -ism but superbism and irrationalism.
1846 J. C. Hare Mission of Comforter II. 510 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.
Derivatives
iˈrrationalist n. [see -ist suffix] Also attributive or as adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > rationalism > [noun] > irrationalism and its adherents
irrationalism1811
irrationalist1836
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > rationalism > [adjective] > of or relating to irrationalism
irrationalist1836
1836 H. Smith Tin Trumpet II. 116 These irrationalists seem to think, that the intellectual faculties of man are like hemlock and henbane.
1839 R. Whately Dangers Christian Faith (1857) I. ix. 38 We may..call the one of these a ‘Rationalist’, and the other an ‘Irrationalist’.
1897 H. M. Cecil (title) Pseudo-philosophy at the end of the nineteenth century: an irrationalist trio: Kidd, Drummond, Balfour.
1910 W. James Mem. & Stud. (1911) xv. 392 Listen for a moment to such irrationalist deliverances on his part as these.
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