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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun rationalization has 5 senses

• rationalization(n = noun.cognition) rationalisation - the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason; Array
is a kind of explanation
has particulars: raison d'etre
Derived form verb rationalize₁

• rationalization(n = noun.process) rationalisation - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening; Array
is a kind of defence, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defense mechanism, defense reaction

• rationalization(n = noun.act) rationalisation - (mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation; Array
is a kind of simplification
Derived form verb rationalize₅

• rationalization(n = noun.act) rationalisation - the organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency; Array
is a kind of organisation, organization
Derived form verb rationalize₃

• rationalization(n = noun.act) rationalisation, systematisation, systematization - systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale; Array
is a kind of organisation, organization
has particulars: codification, formalisation, formalization
Derived form verb rationalize₄

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THESAURUS

rationalization

account, adjustment, alienation, apparent soundness, approach, arrangement, attack, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, blame-shifting, blueprint, blueprinting, calculation, casuistry, charting, circularity, clearance, clearing, codification, compensation, conception, contrivance, coordination, decompensation, deduction, deductive reasoning, defense mechanism, demonstration, dereism, dereistic thinking, design, destigmatization, destigmatizing, device, discourse, discourse of reason, discursive reason, disingenuousness, displacement, disposition, dissociation, distortion, emotional insulation, enterprise, envisagement, equivocalness, equivocation, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, evasive reasoning, exculpation, explanation, fallaciousness, fallacy, fantasizing, fantasy, figuring, flight, foresight, forethought, game, graphing, ground plan, guidelines, harmonization, idea, induction, inductive reasoning, insincerity, intention, isolation, jesuitism, jesuitry, justification, layout, lineup, logical thought, long-range plan, mapping, master plan, method, methodization, methodology, misapplication, mystification, negativism, normalization, obfuscation, obscurantism, operations research, ordination, organization, overcompensation, oversubtlety, perversion, philosophism, philosophy, plan, planning, planning function, plausibility, plausibleness, prearrangement, procedure, program, program of action, projection, proof, psychotaxis, purgation, purging, ratiocination, rationale, rationalism, rationality, rationalizing, reason, reasonableness, reasoning, regularization, regulation, rehabilitation, reinstatement, resistance, restoration, routinization, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, setup, sociological adjustive reactions, sophism, sophistical reasoning, sophistication, sophistry, special pleading, speciosity, specious reasoning, speciousness, strategic plan, strategy, sublimation, substitution, subtlety, sweet reason, system, systematization, tactical plan, tactics, the big picture, the picture, vicious circle, vicious reasoning, vindication, way, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal, working plan

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