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51Impossibility — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Impossibility >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 impossibility impossibility &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 what cannot what cannot what can never be Sgm: N 1 sour grapes sour grapes Sgm: N 1 hopelessness hopelessness &c. 859 P …
52Torture — Torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, is any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him, or a third person,… …
53Anthony Collins — (June 21, 1676, Old Style December 13, 1729, Old Style), was an English philosopher, and a proponent of deism.Life and WritingsCollins was born in Heston, near Hounslow in Middlesex, England. He was educated at Eton College and King s College,… …
54Socialist Sunday Schools — were set up as an alternative to Christian Sunday Schools in the United Kingdom. They arose in response to a feeling as to the inadequacy of the orthodox Sunday Schools as a training ground for the children of Socialists and of the need for some… …
55Socratic Club — The Oxford Socratic Club was formed in December 1941, at Oxford University, by Stella Aldwinckle of the Oxford Pastorate and a group of undergraduate students, in order to provide an open forum for the discussion of the intellectual difficulties… …
56irrational — Not rational; unreasonable (contrary to reason) or unreasoning (not exercising reason). [L. irrationalis, without reason] * * * ir·ra·tio·nal ( )ir (r)ash nəl, ən əl adj not rational: as a) lacking usual or normal mental clarity or coherence… …
57irrational — Synonyms and related words: abnormal, absonant, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, bereft of reason, bigoted, brainless, brainsick, cardinal, contradictory, contrary to reason, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, daft, decimal, deluded, demented …
58out of the question — Synonyms and related words: God forbid, I refuse, I will not, absurd, au contraire, barred, by no means, closed out, contemned, contrary to reason, count me out, declined, declined with thanks, denied, despised, disapproved, discarded, discounted …
59reasonless — Synonyms and related words: abnormal, absonant, arbitrary, batty, bedlamite, bereft of reason, brainless, brainsick, capricious, careless, contradictory, contrary to reason, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, daft, deluded, demented, deprived… …
60senseless — Synonyms and related words: abiotic, abnormal, absonant, absurd, aimless, amorphous, anesthetized, apish, asinine, asleep, azoic, batty, befooled, beguiled, benumbed, bereft of reason, besotted, brainless, brainsick, buffoonish, capricious,… …
