reasonableness

English

Etymology

From Middle English resonabilnes, resonabilnesse, resonablenesse, equivalent to reasonable +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹiː.zə.nə.bəl.nəs/, /ˈɹiːz.nə.bəl.nəs/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): [ˈɹɪiz.nə.bəl.nəs]
• Hyphenation: rea‧son‧able‧ness

Noun

reasonableness (usually uncountable, plural reasonablenesses)

1. (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being reasonable.
   • 2004, George F. McLean, Robert R. Magliola, William Fox, Democracy: In the Throes of Liberalism and Totalitarianism, page 101:

     This dictates the reasonableness of the rupture of a unipersonalist absolute that is pseudomonotheistic since, in this case, the possibility of any other being would have been made impossible.

2. (countable) A reasonable action or behaviour.

Synonyms

• reasonability

Translations

state or characteristic of being reasonable

• Czech: rozumnost f
• French: modération (fr) f
• German: Vernünftigkeit f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἐπιείκεια f (epieíkeia)

• Irish: réasún m, réasúntacht f
• Italian: ragionevolezza (it) f
• Kazakh: ақыл-парасаттылық (aqyl-parasattylyq)
• Portuguese: razoabilidade (pt) f
• Romanian: rațiune (ro)
• Sicilian: raciunivulizza f
• Turkish: makuliyet

a reasonable action or behaviour