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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unreason |
| Synonyms: | foolishness, illogicalness, impracticality, insanity, irrationality, unreasonableness |
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| Main Entry: | fallacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illusion, misconception |
| Synonyms: | aberration, ambiguity, artifice, bias, casuistry, cavil, deceit, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, deviation, elusion, equivocation, erratum, erroneousness, error, evasion, falsehood, faultiness, flaw, heresy, illogicality, inconsistency, inexactness, invalidity, misapprehension, miscalculation, misconstrual, misinterpretation, mistake, non sequitur, notion, paradox, perversion, preconception, prejudice, quibbling, quirk, solecism, sophism, sophistry, speciousness, subterfuge, untruth |
| Antonyms: | certainty, evidence, fact, honesty, reality, right, surety, truth |
| Main Entry: | illogicalness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unreason |
| Synonyms: | foolishness, illogicality, impracticality, insanity, irrationality, unreasonableness |
| Main Entry: | irrationality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unreason |
| Synonyms: | foolishness, illogicality, illogicalness, impracticality, insanity, unreasonableness |
| Main Entry: | speciousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fallacy |
| Synonyms: | aberration, ambiguity, artifice, bias, casuistry, cavil, deceit, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, deviation, elusion, equivocation, erratum, erroneousness, error, evasion, falsehood, faultiness, flaw, heresy, illogicality, inconsistency, inexactness, invalidity, misapprehension, miscalculation, misconstrual, misinterpretation, mistake, non sequitur, notion, paradox, perversion, preconception, prejudice, quibbling, quirk, solecism, sophism, sophistry, spuriousness, subterfuge, untruth |
| Main Entry: | spuriousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fallacy |
| Synonyms: | aberration, ambiguity, artifice, bias, casuistry, cavil, deceit, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, deviation, elusion, equivocation, erratum, erroneousness, error, evasion, falsehood, faultiness, flaw, heresy, illogicality, inconsistency, inexactness, invalidity, misapprehension, miscalculation, misconstrual, misinterpretation, mistake, non sequitur, notion, paradox, perversion, preconception, prejudice, quibbling, quirk, solecism, sophism, sophistry, speciousness, subterfuge, untruth |
| Main Entry: | unreasonableness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unreason |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, arbitrariness, caprice, illogicality, illogicalness, irrationality |
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| Concept: | Absurdity. |
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-nouns
absurdity, absurdness; imbecility; alogy, nonsense; paradox, inconsistency; stultiloquy, stultiloquence; nugacity., blunder, muddle, bull; Irishism, Hibernicism; slipslop; anticlimax, bathos; sophism., farce, galimathias, amphigouri, rhapsody; farrago (disorder); betise; extravagance, romance; sciamachy., sell, pun, verbal quibble, macaronic., jargon, fustian, twaddle (no meaning) [more]; exaggeration; moonshine, stuff; mare's nest, quibble, self-delusion., vagary, tomfoolery, mummery, monkey trick, boutade, escapade.
-verbs
play the fool; talk nonsense, parler a tort et a travess; battre la campagne; be absurd
-adjectives
absurd, nonsensical, preposterous, egregious, senseless, inconsistent, ridiculous, extravagant, quibbling; self-annulling, self-contradictory; macaronic, punning., foolish; sophistical; unmeaning; without rhyme or reason; fantastic.
-phrases
credat Judaeus Apella [Horace]; tell it to the marines.
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| Antonyms: | maxim |
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