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
  • Modern men were influenced by reason and rationality, rather than a deity.
    Alison Habens, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Though Young has a clear, lovely voice and an appealing matter-of-factness about her, neither Lloyd nor the show seems very interested in Betty’s B-plot, maybe because its girl-next-door sweetness and rationality feel wan beside the play’s central house of horrors.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2024
Definition of rationality
Noun
  • Instead, in this example, refinancing down to a 20-year loan could make more sense.
    Amy Wagner and Steve Hruby, The Enquirer, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Stretching out your arms to a bigger audience pool makes a lot of sense.
    Serenity Gibbons, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of sense
Noun
  • What does a guy in my situation do: stay single for sanity or give it another go? – Dating Debate Dear Dating Debate: Think of this as the entrance to a new phase in your dating life.
    R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Can Washington keep things somewhat manageable with enough economic growth…lower interest rates…higher taxes…a return to fiscal sanity…or some combination thereof?
    MoneyShow, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of sanity
Noun
  • There has been intense speculation about the long-term viability of the relationship, given the ambitions and personalities of the two men, with many people on social media predicting an eventual falling-out.
    David Ingram, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • While North Dakota and Wyoming also allow abortions up until viability, the Guttmacher Institute considers those states to be restrictive due to stringent policies and an absence of providers.
    Joseph Choi, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of viability
Noun
  • Danson now stars in Netflix’s A Man on the Inside, which comes from the mind of Mike Schur, who is better known for creating The Office, co-creating Parks and Recreation, and then Brooklyn Nine-Nine and The Good Place.
    Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 22 Nov. 2024
  • When Lindsay Gottlieb thinks back to the start, before USC was about to become the biggest thing in women’s college basketball — and maybe college basketball overall — her mind travels to a phone call three and a half years ago.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of mind
Noun
  • The list of possibilities runs the gamut from networks owned by Warner Bros Discovery or Paramount to stand-alone companies/JVs like AMC Networks and A&E Networks.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Frolova-Walker and Walker, at the end of their book on the Shostakovich Fifth, entertain an enticing possibility: What if the work actually had nothing to do with Stalin?
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of possibility
Noun
  • Typically, the editors will set up multiple story lines in each episode that ultimately coalesce by the time the contestants reach Tribal Council into two or three potentialities.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
  • If Vietnam damaged the credibility of experts, experts were no more inclined to value the democratic potentialities of the public.
    Daniel Bessner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Apr. 2017
Definition of potentiality
Noun
  • Intent to prove his vitality now that Loretta has a hot new co-star, Oliver volunteers to reenact the murder to test the plausibility of the time frame.
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Hal literally killing the President with a piece of news, however unsettling, at that exact, ultra-convenient moment for the plot is just a bridge too far in terms of plausibility.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Definition of plausibility
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