A philosophical or artistic movement opposing excessive reliance on reason and logic, often emphasizing emotion, intuition, or instinct.
From antirational + -ism (forming nouns for beliefs). This intellectual term developed through 19th and 20th-century philosophy and artistic movements rejecting pure rationalism.
Romanticism and Surrealism were basically 'antirationalism' movements—artists and writers deliberately chose emotion, dreams, and intuition over logical calculation, changing how we value different ways of thinking.
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