rationalness

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  1. rationality
  2. coherence
  3. logic
  4. reasoning
  5. ratiocination
  6. cogency
Noun
  • But nuance, rationality, perspective, and experience are not valuable commodities in college football, however, considering social media dunks are far more exciting and attention grabbing.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2026
  • These episodes cemented the importance of behavioral economics, revealing that human behavior often deviates from pure rationality, underscoring the need for robust financial regulation alongside monetary policy.
    — Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
Definition of rationality
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  • Up to that point, America’s external enemy—the godless Soviets—gave the movement coherence and urgency.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2026
  • And the coherence critics ask for is what outcome-routing supplies.
    — Simon Hill, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of coherence
Noun
  • That approach served reasonably well for compliance risk and reputational risk, where the underlying logic, if not every technical detail, remained familiar to most directors.
    — Amer Al Ahbabi, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Piecing together that chain of events is where the blueprints of the characters’ house and the logic maps came in.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of logic
Noun
  • McMillan, who was Prince’s lawyer for more than a decade, jumped on a Zoom with Rolling Stone to discuss Timeless, his reasoning behind the Netflix decision, the estate’s future plans, and much more.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The reasoning behind Criterion’s selections remains somewhat mysterious.
    — Sophia Nguyen, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of reasoning
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  • Since Magdalen is all emotion and no ratiocination, No Name might seem to tease that the real detective character is split across the two sisters.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 July 2026
  • The underground man is someone who is cursed with ratiocination.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of ratiocination
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  • In one of its most demanding assignments of recent memory, the San Francisco Opera Chorus led by John Keene embodies one population after another — monkeys, undersea dwellers, gods and heavenly hangers-on — and does it with power and cogency.
    — Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2025
  • TikTok’s algorithm started swamping me with humanities grad students of varying cogency.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2025
Definition of cogency
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