alogism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An early 20th century movement in painting and writing, emerging from the Russian avant-garde, which made use of antirational or nonsensical elements.
  2. An absurd or nonsensical element deliberately added to a work that belongs to the alogism movement.
  3. Irrationality; the rejection of logical thinking as a means of approaching truth.
  4. An irrational statement or line of argument; a logical error.
  5. An inconsistency or arbitrary situation that follows no logical pattern.

Word forms

alogism alogisms
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