REASONABILITY Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

reasonability

noun

Definition of reasonability

as in reasonableness

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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

Unger also claimed in the FPPC complaint that the board overpaid for the land, and that an earthquake fault running through it calls into question the feasibility of building there.

— Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
That structure draws on capabilities Lowery Company has used across its broader development work, from feasibility and site acquisition through entitlements, design coordination, construction management and operations.

— Nia Bowers, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of feasibility

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Even if there is some doubt about the viability of the Golden Dome, Russian and Chinese officials are obliged to take it seriously.

— Jeffrey Lewis, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2026
The city last year commissioned a study to test the ice, evaluating the economic viability of placing a 20,000-seat arena at North Point Mall.

— Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of viability

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Work commenced on the record three months after Drewchin welcomed the arrival of her first child, Nova, a period in which she was consumed with the reality and potentialities of being a new parent.

— Colin Joyce, Pitchfork, 20 July 2026
Takeovers are at once a timeless illustration of the volatility of crowds—perhaps especially adolescent crowds—and of the much newer potentialities unleashed by the internet a few decades ago.

— Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 10 July 2026

Definition of potentiality

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The first term may make the second plausible, compatible or even probable, but plausibility is not identity, compatibility is not implication, probability is not necessity, and similarity of appearance is not proof of sameness of nature.

— Hamilton Mann, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
The bottom line for now is that oysters carry compounds with real biological plausibility for supporting testosterone production, particularly in people who are zinc-deficient.

— Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 29 July 2026

Definition of plausibility

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