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Illogicality

Definition: Illogicality

Illogicality

Noun

1. Invalid or incorrect reasoning.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "illogicality" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)

Synonyms: Illogicality

Synonyms: illogic (n), illogicalness (n). (additional references)
Antonym: logicality (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Illogicality

English words defined with "illogicality": invalidity, invalidness. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Illogicality

"Illogicality" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Illogicality" is used about 31 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3162,296

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Illogicality

Language Translations for "illogicality"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

palogjikë. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏اللامنطقية. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

нелогичност (hole, illegitimacy, inconsequence). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

不合逻辑 (illogical). (various references)

   

Czech

  

nelogiènost. (various references)

   

French

  

illogisme. (various references)

   

German

  

widersinn (absurdity). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ésszerûtlenség (unreason). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

非合理 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ひ"うり. (various references)

   

Manx

  

neuresoon (irrationality), meeresoon. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

illogicalityay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

sem lógica (weak). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

нелогичность. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nelogičnost. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

otro sentido, falta de lógica. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bristande logik (illegitimacy). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

mantıksızlık (absurdity, fallacy, inconsequence, irrationality, opacity, paralogism, the irrational, unreason), mantığa aykırı olma. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

нелогічність (illogic). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tính phi lý (illogicalness), tính không lôgíc (illogicalness). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Illogicality

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-i-i-l-l-l-o-t-y"

-2 letters: logicality.

-3 letters: illicitly, illogical, logically.

-4 letters: coitally, locality.

-5 letters: agility, allylic, galliot, illicit, illitic, illogic, licitly, locally, logical, otalgic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Illogicality


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 6C 6C 6F 67 69 63 61 6C 69 74 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01101100 01101100 01101111 01100111 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006C 006C 006F 0067 0069 0063 0061 006C 0069 0074 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

437878817375696778758691

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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