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English
Etymology
From il- + logic, after illogical.
Pronunciation
Adjective
illogic (comparative more illogic, superlative most illogic)
- Synonym of illogical
1896, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association:I think this is a very illogic way of reasoning.
2012, Marko Dorantes, Somewhere Somehow, →ISBN, page 131:Because everything started precisely by the influence of that country that practically became our enemy; and it's very illogic that somebody would try to escape by getting into the mouth of the wolf.
2015, Deborah J. Ross, Ink Dance: Essays on The Writing Life, →ISBN:The problem with using dreams as story material is the very illogic nature of them, the juxtaposition of images and actions without regard for the laws of physics, psychology, or anything else.
Noun
illogic (usually uncountable, plural illogics)
- Lack of logic; unreasonableness; a fallacy.
- 1907, Jack London, Before Adam:
- And right often have I, the modern, been perturbed and vexed by the foolishness, illogic, obtuseness, and general all-round stupendous stupidity of myself, the primitive.
2011 February 25, “Endgame in Tripoli”, in The Economist:Mr Qaddafi, with a characteristic mix of bluntness and illogic, declared that his ideology was ‘theoretically’ a genuine democracy, but in reality, ‘the strong always rule.’
- Synonym: unlogic