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English

Noun

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

Translations

Czech: racionalizace

Czech: racionalizace

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