'Rationalization' definitions:
Definition of 'rationalization'
(from WordNet)
noun
The cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason [syn: rationalization, rationalisation]
noun
(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: rationalization, rationalisation]
noun
(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: rationalization, rationalisation]
noun
The organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency [syn: rationalization, rationalisation]
noun
Systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale [syn: systematization, systematisation, rationalization, rationalisation]
Definition of 'Rationalization'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'rationalization'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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