alogicalityn.
/eɪˌlɒdʒᵻˈkalᵻti/, U.S. /eɪˌlɑdʒəˈkælədi/ The fact or quality of being alogical.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > lack of reasoning, illogicality > [noun]
inconsequence1588
flashness1604
illogicalness1657
illogicality1830
unlogic1843
illogic1856
non-consequence1856
alogism1866
alogicality1907
alogic1935
1907 E. B. Bax Roots of Reality 161 In every process of consciousness a contradiction lies embedded, based on the antithetic character of its two ultimate elements, the mark of which we have found to consist respectively in alogicality and logicality.
1944 W. K. Wimsatt in Verbal Icon (1954) iii. 154 Here not only the endings but also the roots rhyme, and the result is an effect of alogicality, if not of excess and artificiality.
1998 Russ. Rev. 57 534 Kharms's pointed alogicality may be read as a direct political challenge to the enforced Stalinist philosophy of optimistic determinism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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