Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pseudorational

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pseu-do-ra-tional
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Supposedly, but not actually, rational; having only a veneer of reason or logic.

adj

Able to be expressed as the convolution ratio of distributions with compact support.

Example Sentences

"For these reasons, the self-deceiver is particularly recalcitrant and impervious to any attempts of her own to survey and critically revise her own pseudorational self-conception."
"It is found that some pseudorational families also have the Cartesian property."

Etymology

From pseudo- + rational.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: pseudo

Questions

What does pseudorational mean?: Supposedly, but not actually, rational; having only a veneer of reason or logic.
Where does pseudorational come from?: From pseudo- + rational.

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