irrationalism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.39 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A philosophical movement formed as a cultural reaction against positivism in the early 20th century.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Finally, with good reason, this psychology aims to be a psychology of a purely empiriological type. It is pervaded and overwhelmed on every side, however, by a pseudometaphysics of the most vulgar character, which Freud is all the less anxious to dispense iwth as he imagines he has no philosophy or metaphysics at all. I say pseudometaphysics of the most vulgar type, because it combines all the prejudices of deterministic, mechanistic scientism with all the prejudices of irrationalism."
Etymology
Etymology tree English irrational Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English irrationalism From irrational + -ism.