unreason
/ʌnˈriːz(ə)n
/noun [mass noun]
Inability to act or think reasonably: the fever left him in a limbo between reason and unreason...
- Like these literary predecessors, Fred Daniels confronts reason and unreason, rationality and sensuality, society and nature.
- Fred Daniels and the reader have completed the modernist journey from reason to unreason, reaching an inevitable and final destination.
- Not reason, but unreason is man's primary attribute - not only man's but all western civilization as well.
Origin
Middle English (in the senses 'unreasonable intention' and 'impropriety'): from un-1 'lack of' + reason.