An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
UNREASON
irrationality, unreason
(noun) the state of being irrational; lacking powers of understanding
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
unreason (usually uncountable, plural unreasons)
Lack of reason or rationality; unreasonableness; irrationality.
Nonsense; folly; absurdity.
Verb
unreason (third-person singular simple present unreasons, present participle unreasoning, simple past and past participle unreasoned)
(transitive, rare) To prove to be unreasonable; disprove by argument.
(rare) To apply false logic or think without logic.
(rare) To make unreasonable; to deprive of reason.
Source: Wiktionary
Un*rea"son, n. Etym: [Pref. un- not + reason.]
Definition: Want of reason; unreasonableness; absurdity. Abbot of Unreason. See Abbot of Misrule, under Abbot.
Un*rea"son, v. t. Etym: [1st pref. un- + reason.]
Definition: To undo, disprove, or refute by reasoning. [Obs.] To unreason the equity of God's proceedings. South.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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