All 3 Uses of
irrational
in
The Age of Innocence
- His spirits, which had dropped at her last words, rose with an irrational leap.†
Chpt 15irrational = unreasonable
- Archer felt irrationally angry.†
Chpt 21 *irrationally = in a manner that is not reasonable
- He was not sure that he wanted to see the Countess Olenska again; but ever since he had looked at her from the path above the bay he had wanted, irrationally and indescribably, to see the place she was living in, and to follow the movements of her imagined figure as he had watched the real one in the summer-house.†
Chpt 22
Definitions:
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(1)
(irrational) not reasonable
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, irrational numbers in mathematics are numbers that cannot be expressed as a fraction consisting of only an integer in the numerator and denominator. For example, pi is an irrational number while 1/3 is rational.