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  • I have an irrational fear of heights.
  • My fear is irrational; this is just a test, it isn't real.  (source)
  • We do not conceive of sudden, radical, irrational change as built into the very fabric of existence.  (source)
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  • Shortly before he disappeared, Chris complained to Carine that their parents' behavior was "so irrational, so oppressive, disrespectful and insulting that I finally passed my breaking point."  (source)
    irrational = unreasonable
  • Humans, I'd noticed, seem to be irrationally fond of dogs, and I could see why a puppy would be easier to cuddle with than, say, a gorilla.  (source)
    irrationally = in a manner that is not based on reason
  • Indeed, even on top of Radar Peak, a place the world almost forgot, the madness and irrationality of the human race were constantly on display.†  (source)
    irrationality = the state or an instance of being unreasonable
  • Bran flakes in cream with a sprinkle of blueberries on top — bloobies, her father had always called them, another one of those comic irrationalities that had irritated her mother out of all proportion.†  (source)
    irrationalities = actions or beliefs that are not reasonable
  • He'd held his temper—he hadn't done anything too impulsive or irrational.  (source)
    irrational = unreasonable
  • He found that he was often angry, now: irrationally angry at his groupmates, that they were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on.  (source)
    irrationally = in a manner that is unreasonable
  • The sociologist George Ritzer has attacked the fast food industry for celebrating a narrow measure of efficiency over every other human value, calling the triumph of McDonald's "the irrationality of rationality."†  (source)
    irrationality = the state or an instance of being unreasonable
  • To have positive liberty, he explained, is to take control of one's own mind; to be liberated from irrational fears and beliefs, from addictions, superstitions and all other forms of self-coercion.  (source)
    irrational = unreasonable
  • I'm irrationally concerned she can see my butt through the paper robe.  (source)
    irrationally = in a manner that is not reasonable
  • "The King of the Gods is the ultimate limitation," he keens, "and His existence is the ultimate irrationality.†  (source)
    irrationality = the state or an instance of being unreasonable
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