reasonableness

noun

Definition of reasonablenessnext
1
as in rationality

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2
as in feasibility

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reasonableness
  1. rationality
  2. sense
  3. sanity
  4. viability
  5. mind
  6. possibility
  7. potentiality
  8. plausibility
Noun
  • And a law like that can't stand on their rationality.
    Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Someone in a position of authority can remove all rationality from a person’s responses.
    Mike Sacks, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of rationality
Noun
  • So the researchers look at this random, unrelated environmental factor to having ADHD — the fact the doctor is seeing these kids on Halloween — to get a sense of just how subjective and prone to error these decisions are.
    Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The five human senses include sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
    Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of sense
Noun
  • If the incoming administration is serious about delivering to the American people results based on common sense, biological reality, and cultural sanity, there is plenty of work to be done across multiple departments and agencies of the leviathan federal ...
    Lathan Watts, National Review, 5 Dec. 2024
  • With this new wave of amenities (and your travel sanity) in mind, here are the best airports in the world, from Asia and the Middle East to right here in North America, that offer incredible open-air areas to soothe your traveling stress.
    Ryan Krogh, Outside Online, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of sanity
Noun
  • Overlooking financial transparency Grant reviewers are looking for clear and accurate financial information to assess your business’s viability.
    Melissa Houston, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Balancing freedom and order In places like Mayport, Florida’s new amendment adds to current debates about the viability of traditional industries, like commercial fishing, which are already battered by government regulations and cheap imports.
    Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of viability
Noun
  • The shtick was that the powers that be had changed their minds after seeing a recut version.
    Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Her husband, my grandfather, was not only a composer who wrote liturgical music, motets, symphonies, and string quartets but also a beloved music teacher who believed that music was as crucial to the development of the mind as math.
    Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of mind
Noun
  • Despite that possibility, FOX Sports' Rowan Kavner is predicting Hernández will remain in Hollywood after signing a three-year deal.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
  • One possibility is to promote a broader view of the liberal arts.
    Brian Mitchell, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of possibility
Noun
  • Practically, then, the translator reads with an eye to understanding the affordances offered by a text—to re-creating its potentialities, rather than merely offering a lexical equivalent.
    Max Norman, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Meanwhile, parsing-of-totality depends on advancing sensing techniques to harness atoms’ deeper patterns and potentiality.
    Pravir Malik, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of potentiality
Noun
  • Yet the balance Dead to Me struck was fragile; if the plot could get cartoonish, then the connection between the two leads, Cardellini and Christina Applegate, and the plausibility of their characters’ bond helped suspend disbelief.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
  • But the plausibility of this subplot is cursed by a clunkiness that recalls the more unbelievable moments of F. Gary Gray’s Heist.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Definition of plausibility
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“Reasonableness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reasonableness. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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