RATIONALITY Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

rationality

noun

Definition of rationality

as in reasonableness

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Recent Examples of rationality To inject greater rationality into the system, a unified budget took effect in 1969. — Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 14 May 2026 Tap into desire—or, better yet, anxiety—and rationality goes out the window. — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026 Such reactions may appear irrational under one standard yet reflect a form of rationality adapted to uncertainty, vivid impressions and limited information. — Alejandro Hortal-Sánchez, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2026 Juergen Habermas, one of the world’s most influential philosophers whose theories on communication and rationality shaped modern intellectual thought, died at 96. — Geir Moulson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for rationality

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rationality

Noun

The residents are owed answers, even while understanding the reasonableness of not knowing all of them just yet.

— Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 23 Apr. 2026
Choosing life over glory is reasonableness in action.

— Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026

Definition of reasonableness

Noun

What’s crucially lacking here is a particularly compelling sense of Reagan and Gorbachev as human characters.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 12 Aug. 2026
People think of intimacy in a romantic sense, but the relationships artists have with the people in their corner in the industry is also really intimate.

— Cathy Applefeld Olson, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of sense

Noun

The President knows Mike Lindell will Make Minnesota Affordable Again, clean up the fraud, and restore sanity.

— Max Grinstein, The Washington Examiner, 12 Aug. 2026
For her own sanity, McRae prefers to float above the noise, staying out of the discourse and letting the work speak for itself.

— Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of sanity

Noun

These groups that are coming here are coming for one reason, and that is to provoke a reaction and generate attention.

— Heath Kalb, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
The suit maintains that the commission’s denial does not identify any adverse impact to a wetland function or value, nor any feasible and prudent alternatives to address the Commission’s reasons for denial, in violation of state law, Conn.

— Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 13 Aug. 2026