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Dictionary Results For "rationalization" [?]/[OPML]
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English

Noun

  1. The process, or result of rationalizing.
  2. A statement of one's motives, or of the causes of some event.
  3. A reorganization of a company or organization in order to improve its efficiency.
  4. The concealment of true motivation in some non-threatening way.
  5. The simplification of an expression without changing its value.


Translations

fa:rationalization it:rationalization fi:rationalization ta:rationalization vi:rationalization zh:rationalization

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Rationalization \Ra`tion*al*i*za"tion\
(r[a^]sh`[u^]n*al*[i^]*z[=a]"sh[u^]n), n.
The act or process of rationalizing.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet rationalization
n 1: the cognitive process of making something seem consistent
with or based on reason [syn: rationalisation]
2: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true
motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and
feelings in a way that is not threatening [syn: rationalisation]
3: (mathematics) the simplification of an expression or
equation by eliminating radicals without changing the
value of the expression or the roots of the equation [syn:
rationalisation]
4: the organization of a business according to scientific
principles of management in order to increase efficiency
[syn: rationalisation]
5: systematic organization; the act of organizing something
according to a system or a rationale [syn: systematization,
systematisation, rationalisation]
Moby Dictionary
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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