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n. an impelling force or strength; "the car's momentum carried it off the road"

n. the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber; "they demonstrated the transmission of impulses from the cortex to the hypothalamus"

impulse, impulsion, impetus

n. the act of applying force suddenly; "the impulse knocked him over"

impulse, pulse, pulsation, pulsing

n. (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star"

impulse, whim, caprice, vagary

n. a sudden desire; "he bought it on an impulse"

impulse, urge

n. a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation; "his first impulse was to denounce them"; "the urge to find out got him into trouble"

irrational

adj. not consistent with or using reason; "irrational fears"; "irrational animals"

irrational

adj. real but not expressible as the quotient of two integers; "irrational numbers"

eccentricity

n. strange and unconventional behavior

hope

n. the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled; "in spite of his troubles he never gave up hope"

illusion, fancy, fantasy, phantasy

n. something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"

notion

n. a general inclusive concept

notion, whimsy, whimsey, whim

n. an odd or fanciful or capricious idea; "the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories"; "he had a whimsy about flying to the moon"; "whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it"

fondness, fancy, partiality

n. a predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for whiskey"

inclination

n. that toward which you are inclined to feel a liking; "her inclination is for classical music"

motivation, motive, need

n. the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior; "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives"

fondness, fancy, partiality

n. a predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for whiskey"

crazed, deranged, half-crazed

adj. driven insane

disconnected, confused, disjointed, disordered, disorganized, desultory, garbled, illogical, rambling, scattered, unconnected

adj. lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts"

indefensible, untenable

adj. (of theories etc) incapable of being defended or justified

incongruous, unreasonable, absurd

adj. inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman

senseless, mindless, reasonless

adj. not marked by the use of reason; "mindless violence"; "reasonless hostility"; "a senseless act"

unsound, unstable, mentally ill

adj. suffering from severe mental illness; "of unsound mind"

undue, extraordinary, unreasonable, excessive, inordinate

adj. beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of undue elegance"; "unreasonable demands"

gratuitous, needless, uncalled-for

adj. unnecessary and unwarranted; "a strikers' tent camp...was burned with needless loss of life"

unnecessary, unneeded

adj. not necessary

undue, unwarranted, unjustified

adj. lacking justification or authorization; "unreasonable searches and seizures"; "desire for undue private profit"; "unwarranted limitations of personal freedom"

idle, baseless, groundless, unfounded

adj. without a basis in reason or fact; "baseless gossip"; "the allegations proved groundless"; "idle fears"; "unfounded suspicions"; "unwarranted jealousy"

mindless, vacuous, asinine, fatuous, inane

adj. devoid of intelligence

mad, insane, harebrained

adj. very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains"

hysteric, hysterical

adj. characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria; "during hysterical conditions various functions of the human body are disordered"- Morris Fishbein; "hysterical amnesia"

meaningless

adj. having no meaning or direction or purpose; "a meaningless endeavor"; "a meaningless life"; "a verbose but meaningless explanation"

sick, crazy, disturbed, mad, distracted, unbalanced, brainsick, demented, unhinged

adj. affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"

insane

adj. afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement; "was declared insane"; "insane laughter"

illogical, unlogical

adj. lacking in correct logical relation

incoherent

adj. without logical or meaningful connection; "a turgid incoherent presentation"

unreasonable

adj. not reasonable; not showing good judgment

rational

adj. consistent with or based on or using reason; "rational behavior"; "a process of rational inference"; "rational thought"

logical

adj. capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning; "a logical mind"

sane

adj. mentally healthy; free from mental disorder; "appears to be completely sane"

sensible, reasonable

adj. showing reason or sound judgment; "a sensible choice"; "a sensible person"

rational

adj. capable of being expressed as a quotient of integers; "rational numbers"

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