[Closed] What's the exact opposite of reason?

Female

UKIP

Yup, jam bo's nailed it

ignorance?

Democracy

rhyme

religion

Rum 'n'

[i]UKIP [/i]

"That's a load of Farage and you know it!"

"Let's drop the Farage and be reasonable about this?"

Google seems to be working:

disbelief, ignorance, misinterpretation, mistake, misunderstanding, physicality, stupidity, unsoundness, block, discouragement, hindrance, insanity, charge, indictment

Imprudence?

Insanity

EDIT: pipped to the post

La déraison = unreason. It's in the title of a book.

Irrationality, perhaps.

Dogma.

Have you ever tried using facts to challenge the view of someone dogmatic? ie: your average anti-cycling driver, racist or believer in ever-rising house prices 🙂

Pandemonium

saltana

Dogma

Have you ever tried using facts to challenge the view of someone dogmatic? ie: your average anti-cycling driver, racist or believer in ever-rising house prices

Isn't that covered by "UKIP"? 😉

Dogma is very good! Feels good too. Irrationality is good too but doesn't flow. I like la déraison too though.

Accountancy ?

Faith

Reason = sense

Unreason = nonsense

hora. Listen to hora.

Bobbins

nedrapier - Member

hora. Listen to hora.

I like what you did there, but this is trying to come up for a name for a bike and I am [i]not[/i] riding Hora.

Religion +1

Has it got 26" wheels, straight steerer and a triple crankset?

I'd Listen to Bonkers. And ride a bike called Bonkers.

"Are you going to be on the SS tomorrow?"

"No, I'll be riding Bonkers"

Northwind - Member

nedrapier - Member
hora. Listen to hora.

I like what you did there, but this is trying to come up for a name for a bike and I am not riding Hora.

It has to be Dogma then, as up there.^^^^***

wwaswas - Member
UKIP

"That's a load of Farage and you know it!"

"Let's drop the Farage and be reasonable about this?"

That's good, I'm pinching that.

FACTS

Interesting how there's only one word for "reason", but a huge choice to describe it's opposite...

I like what you did there, but this is trying to come up for a name for a bike and I am not riding Hora.

Ah. You know Dogma's taken don't you? 🙂

I like FACTS, but you'll have letters landing on your desk.

Shame FACT(s) and Dogma have been taken, they're the best ones (apart from mine, obvs.) Hardly surprising, I wouldn't like to have to come up with bike names. I have some sympathy with the firms who just do numbers.

Not listening is the opposite. You could 'ignore all objectivity' or close your mind to reason, but unreasoned is as close as you'll get??
Dogma is still reasoned if not necessarily reasonable.

bit lengthy for the top tube though?

Faith.

There was Faith bikes back in the 90s/00s wasn't there? Jump frames?

If reason is your ability to make decisions based on logic/facts, with the absence of emotion, then the opposite of "listen to reason" might be "listen to you heart". You might not want something so fluffy puffy bunny on your top tube, so maybe "listen to your gut" if you want to channel your inner Chuck Norris.

Surely the opposite of reason is unreason? Not a word form I've ever come across, but you have reasonable and unreasonable.

Hora.

I think the struggle here is because the reason referred to in the OP is a noun, and opposites of nouns are a bit iffy. Sticking "un" in front of a word does not always the opposite make. One would imagine "unreason" is a word (haven't looked it up tbh)* but if someone said it, I'm not sure I'd recognise it as a proper antonym for reason.

*just looked up reason (as a noun) on dictionary.com and it doesn't list any antonyms for it.

One would imagine "unreason" is a word (haven't looked it up tbh)* but if someone said it, I'm not sure I'd recognise it as a proper antonym for reason.

You're just being unreasonable 😉

(As you say it doesn't work on a noun. You can be unreasonable but you can't have unreason)