reasonableness
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈrizənəblnəs/
:
razonabilidad
- The committee discussed the reasonableness of the new policy before making a decision.
- reasonableness standard
- reasonableness requirement
- evaluate the reasonableness
The true and the good shall consist in reasonableness.
- The true and the good shall consist in reasonableness.
- Thus common understanding too is a becoming, and as this becoming it is reasonableness.
- There are certain sort of multiples which are within the bounds of, you know, reasonableness.
- Age of Reason, as I pointed out, locks reasonableness of Christianity.
Examples
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A standard based on reasonableness allows some degree of uncertainty as to whether sufficient harm will actually occur.
Academic text (2017) -
Of course, people will assess the reasonableness of this argument on the basis of their own comprehensive doctrines.
Academic text (1998) -
You can always count on them to be there to, to try to judge the, the reasonableness of, of a proposed regulation.
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An argument against the reasonableness of this accommodation can be based on two grounds.
Academic text (1996) -
Instead, police actions should be analyzed based on the reasonableness of the action at the time it was taken.
Academic text (2017) -
Good problem solvers make good estimations and check the reasonableness of their results.
Academic text (1992) -
A court would not be reviewing the agency's actions under the narrow reasonableness standard of the Administrative Procedures Act.
Academic text (1990) -
The IGE elaborated in this way: Reasonableness is always context dependent.
Academic text (2017) -
There was a tough reasonableness to her that resisted airy, Utopian nonsense.
Academic text (2011) -
Unfortunately, we were both dogged by an equally strong streak of reasonableness, a prudence that belied our years.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
34
5.4
Clear thinking and decisions based on facts and logic
4
3.7
The ability to make sensible, careful decisions
4
4.9
Careful thinking and good judgment in making decisions
1
7.2
Careful judgment when deciding what to do
1
4.6
Being careful and reasonable when making choices
Antonyms
How Reasonable
Surface Forms
Morphology
reasonableness = reasonable (transparent) = reason + able + ness
Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ness' to the adjective 'reasonable', a regular and directly interpretable derivation.
Etymology
The word reasonableness comes from the simpler word reason, which originally meant 'to think', so it suggests 'clear thinking' and careful judgment that makes actions fair and sensible.