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Definition: Illogic |
IllogicNoun1. Invalid or incorrect reasoning. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "illogic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1907. (references) |
Synonyms: IllogicSynonyms: illogicality (n), illogicalness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: logicality (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The resulting flood of illogic would be most entertaining. (Star Trek; writing credit: Walter Black; William Hamilton) | |
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| "Illogic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Illogic" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
illogic | 17 |
illogic lyrics | 3 |
illogic rapper | 2 |
hip hop illogic | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "illogic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | illogicay.(various references) | |
Ukranian | нелогічність (illogicality). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "illogic": illogical, illogicalities, illogicality, illogically, illogicalness, illogicalnesses, illogics. (additional references) | |
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"Illogic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ellagic, Igloolik, iglulik. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "illogic" (pronounced i'lÄ"jik) |
| 5 | -l Ä" j i k | analogic, biologic, geologic, gynecologic, logic, neurologic, technologic. |
| 4 | -Ä" j i k | demagogic. |
| 3 | -j i k | allergic, lethargic, magic, nonstrategic, nostalgic, paraplegic, pelagic, quadriplegic, strategic, tragic. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-i-l-l-o" | |
-2 letters: logic. | |
-3 letters: clog, coil, gill, loci. | |
-4 letters: cig, cog, col, ill, log, oil. | |
-5 letters: go, li, lo. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-i-l-l-o" | |
+1 letter: illogics. | |
+2 letters: cigarillo, colliding, illogical. | |
+3 letters: biological, cigarillos, dialogical, glycolipid, limnologic, lithologic, localising, localizing, logicality, logistical, rollicking. | |
+4 letters: abiological, antilogical, axiological, biologicals, cockbilling, colligating, colligation, colligative, collimating, etiological, glycolipids, ideological, illogically, inscrolling, oscillating, sinological, syllogistic, virological. | |
+5 letters: audiological, biologically, carillonning, collegiality, colligations, delocalizing, dialogically, egoistically, geopolitical, glaciologies, glaciologist, hagiological, histological, iconological, illogicality, lexicologies, lexicologist, limnological, lithological, logicalities, logistically, oligarchical, outcavilling, overchilling, philological, radiological, semiological, sociological, tribological, vexillologic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6C 6C 6F 67 69 63 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. .-.. .-.. --- --. .. -.-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101100 01101100 01101111 01100111 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I l l o g i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006C 006C 006F 0067 0069 0063 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43787881737569 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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