UNREASON Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

unreason

noun

Definition of unreason

as in dementia

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Recent Examples of unreason Reason had to triumph in all things, or else waves of unreason, of which the Muckers were a model, would insinuate themselves into daily life. — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026 In that book, his characters confront the decline of American public speech—its degeneration into varieties of unreason and the proto-fascist violence that follows. — Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2026 For all Eggers’s dramatization of unreason, his images sit heavily onscreen awaiting something more significant than mere admiration—interpretation. — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024 Like many politicians, Khan is trying to reason with a maelstrom of unreason. — Peter Guest, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024 The country has entered what can only be characterized as an age of unreason, with large swaths of its population embracing wild conspiracy theories. — Jonathan Kirshner, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2021

Recent Examples of Synonyms for unreason

Noun

Years passed before doctors solved the mystery, first attributing the behavioral changes to frontotemporal dementia (FTD), then linking that rare condition to a genetic mutation.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 13 Oct. 2026
Eleven months later, his family had a more specific diagnosis, frontotemporal dementia.

— Sam Kashner, Vanity Fair, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of dementia

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There are data centers measured in miles and retirement accounts soaring from the stock market’s AI mania.

— Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2026
At least Mark Zuckerberg had the decency to be duplicitous, Altman is just openly consumed by the mania of trying to win the most important technological arms race since the atom bomb.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of mania

Noun

But a line like that also fleshes out the head-in-the-stratosphere delusions of everyone here.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2026
The company has also been sued by the parents of kids who took their own lives, alleging that ChatGPT encouraged suicide and harmful delusions.

— James Peckham, PC Magazine, 5 Oct. 2026