reasonableness

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noun

1. goodness of reason and judgment
- the judiciary is built on the reasonableness of judges
• Derivationally related forms:
reasonable
• Hypernyms:
wisdom, wiseness, soundness
• Hyponyms:
sensibleness
• Attrubites:
reasonable, sensible, unreasonable
2. the property of being moderate in price or expenditures
- the store is famous for the reasonableness of its prices
- the modestness of the living standards here becomes obvious immediately
• Syn:
moderateness, modestness
• Derivationally related forms:
modest (for: modestness), moderate (for: moderateness), reasonable
• Hypernyms:
inexpensiveness
3. the state of having good sense and sound judgment
- his rationality may have been impaired
- he had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions
• Syn:
rationality, reason
• Derivationally related forms:
reasonable, reason (for: reason), rational (for: rationality)
• Hypernyms:
sanity, saneness
4. moderation in expectations
- without greater reasonableness by both parties we will never settle this matter!
• Derivationally related forms:
reasonable
• Hypernyms:
moderation, moderateness
5. the quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person
- he questioned the tenability of my claims
• Syn:
tenability, tenableness
• Derivationally related forms:
tenable (for: tenableness), tenable (for: tenability), reasonable
• Hypernyms:
plausibility, plausibleness

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  tenability, tenableness, moderateness, modestness, rationality, reason