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reasonableness en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • [ˈɹɪiz.nə.bəl.nəs] (Australia)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈɹiːz.nə.bəl.nəs/
  • /ˈɹiː.zə.nə.bəl.nəs/

Etymology

From Middle English resonabilnes, resonabilnesse, resonablenesse, equivalent to reasonable + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable, usually) The state or characteristic of being reasonable.
    • This dictates the reasonableness of the rupture of a unipersonalist absolute that is pseudomonotheistic since, in this case, the possibility of any other being would have been made impossible. 2004, George F. McLean, Robert R. Magliola, William Fox, Democracy: In the Throes of Liberalism and Totalitarianism, page 101:
  2. (countable, usually) A reasonable action or behaviour.

Forms

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Synonyms

reasonability

Translations (12)

ga réasún (state or characteristic of being reasonable) · de Vernünftigkeit (state or characteristic of being reasonable) · fr modération (state or characteristic of being reasonable) · kk ақыл-парасаттылық (state or characteristic of being reasonable) · ga réasúntacht (state or characteristic of being reasonable) · ro rațiune (state or characteristic of being reasonable) · it ragionevolezza (state or characteristic of being reasonable) · cs rozumnost (state or characteristic of being reasonable) · scn raciunivulizza (state or characteristic of being reasonable) · grc ἐπιείκεια (state or characteristic of being reasonable) · tr makuliyet (state or characteristic of being reasonable) · pt razoabilidade (state or characteristic of being reasonable)