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单词 unreasonableness
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unreasonablenessn.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈriːzn̩əblnəs/, /(ˌ)ʌnˈriːz(ə)nəblnəs/, U.S. /ˌənˈrizn̩əb(ə)lnəs/, /ˌənˈriznəb(ə)lnəs/
Forms: see unreasonable adj. and -ness suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: unreasonable adj., -ness suffix.
Etymology: < unreasonable adj. + -ness suffix, after reasonableness n.
1.
a. Unfairness, injustice. Also: an instance or example of this. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > unjustness > [noun]
unrighteOE
unrightnessOE
unrightfulnessc1275
wrongousnessc1325
the wrongc1330
unequityc1380
injustice1390
unreasonc1390
wrongfulnessa1400
unskilfulnessc1410
unjustnessc1443
unevennessa1470
unjusticea1475
disreason1480
unreasonablenessc1515
inequity1556
iniquity1587
non-reason1597
unequalness1628
unfairness1713
wrongness1833
society > morality > rightness or justice > wrong or injustice > [noun]
unrightnessOE
unrightOE
wronga1100
un-i-rightc1275
injustice1390
unreasonc1390
wrongfulnessa1400
unskilfulnessc1410
unjustnessc1443
unjusticea1475
disreason1480
unreasonablenessc1515
non-reason1597
wrongness1833
unconscionability1908
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xviii. 48 Ye..haue well herde the grete vnresonablenes [Fr. desraison] that the kynge do too one of oure peres.
a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) iv. lxxv. 861 Methinks I observe some unreasonableness used in this kind.
1782 V. Knox Ess. (new ed.) I. x. 48 If there is an unreasonableness in the laws in one respect, there is also in the other.
b. With reference to an idea, attitude, action, etc.: the quality of being unreasonable, or at variance with reason, good sense, or sound judgement.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > lack of reason, irrationality > [noun] > in actions, demands, etc. > as quality
unreasonabilitya1425
unreasonableness1529
groundlessness1661
baselessness1817
1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters i. f.xiv/2 Ye author sheweth what vnresonablenes wold ensue, if folke wold stand so styffe agaynst all credence to be geuen to any such thyng as reason and nature shuld seme to gayne saye.
1645 T. Vane Lost Sheepe 24 The vnreasonablenesse of this assertion.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. ix. 388 The Commodore's urging the unreasonableness of this procedure, from the inability of the forts to have done otherwise.
1830 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. Apr. 417 There are depths of unreasonableness, which surpass all human folly.
1936 N. Carolina Rep. 209 151 The instruction..called attention to the unreasonableness of the defendant's testimony.
1961 E. Fromm May Man Prevail? i. 24 The cold glitter in his eyes often tells us more about the fanatical quality of his ideas than the apparent ‘unreasonableness’ of the ideas themselves.
1998 A. Quinton Wodehouse to Wittgenstein 222 Compulsions..are neuroses whose unreasonableness is recognised by the otherwise reasonable person who suffers from them.
2. With reference to a person: the quality of being unreasonable as regards behaviour, attitudes, or demands.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > lack of reason, irrationality > [noun] > in actions, demands, etc.
unreasonableness1529
ungroundedness1628
1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iii. f. lxxxviiiv/2 Ye laye vnreasonablenesse to theyre charge.
1611 T. Draxe Christian Armorie xv. 151 Many innocent wiues in Moses time, by reason of the crueltie and vnreasonablenes of their husbands, were diuorced from them.
1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. vi. 111 This is Vanity, Conceit, and Unreasonableness.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xv. 595 The difficulties by which the government was beset on all sides, the malignity of its enemies, the unreasonableness of its friends.
1932 H. Guppy & M. Tyson in French Jrnls. Mrs. Thrale & Dr. Johnson 26 Over twenty years' close friendship was ended owing to the unreasonableness, not unnatural, of a very sick man.
2013 Sunday Independent (Nexis) 29 Sept. (Sport section) 8 Being a deranged, egomaniacal obsessive often appears to be the first requirement of management. There is a need for..an unreasonableness which resembles madness.
3. Lack of rationality; incapacity to reason. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > lack of reason, irrationality > [noun]
unskillc1380
unreasona1400
unreasonableness1598
reasonlessness1622
irrationability1645
alogy1646
irrationality1822
non-rationality1894
non-reason1898
stupid1948
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Irationalita, vnreasonableness, brutishnes.
1681 R. Baxter Compassionate Counsel Young-men v. 37 But for a reasonable Creature to subject himself to fleshly Appetite, and wilfully degrade his Soul to the rank of Bruits, is worse than if he had been made with the Body and the unreasonableness of Bruits.
1884 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 487 Who that has noticed monkeys in captivity—their profound inconsequent gravity and insane delight in their own unreasonableness—has not envied them their immunity from cold criticism?
1908 J. O. Curwood Wolf Hunters v. 81 With instinct that was almost animal in its unreasonableness Wabi sank upon his knees.
4. Immoderateness; excessiveness.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [noun]
unhovea1300
passingc1350
distemperancec1374
excess1393
unmeasurea1400
surfeita1500
excessivenessa1513
ametry?1541
immoderation?1541
distemperature1572
exceedingnessa1586
grossness1585
unreasonableness1606
inordinacya1617
excrescency1638
immoderancy1646
fair share1650
overbalance1651
hyperbole1652
overheight1664
immoderacya1682
faggald1824
1606 Returne Knight of Poste from Hell sig. C4v Wee..take hie displeasure, both at the vnreasonablenes of thy demand and at thy too plain vnfolding of those sinnes, by which we aduance the power of our kingdome.
1730 T. Chubb Coll. of Tracts xxii. 285 The suffering party..have urged..the unreasonableness of that burden which their fellow-christians have laid upon them.
1833 J. F. Cooper Headsman II. vii. 106 The wearied beasts manifested less zeal than the guide, and they who rode them were beginning to murmur at the unreasonableness of the rate at which they were compelled to proceed on the narrow, uneven, stony path.
1947 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 55 578/1 The irrational basis of my decision to buy caused me almost as much lament as the apparent unreasonableness of the price I had paid.
1982 E. Bardach & R. A. Kagan Going by Bk. i. 6Unreasonableness’ involves economic inefficiency... For example, mandatory installation of a..pollution treatment system might be unreasonable..if that improvement were to be achieved only at extraordinary expense.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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