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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : rash-uh-nl-ahyz, rash-nl-ahyz |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈræʃ ə nlˌaɪz, ˈræʃ nlˌaɪz |
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Définition of rationalization
Origin :- 1825, "a rendering rational," from rationalize + -ation. Psychological use is from 1908.
- Of the three works now on our table, the two which we have placed first have these laudable objects in view; an improvement on the former versions of the Psalms as compositions, and the rationalization, if we may so speak, of our Church psalmody. ["The British Critic," London, Jan.-June 1825]
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- But the Zen's question, even my rationalization of my reaction to it, had given me a chill.
- Extract from : « Zen » by Jerome Bixby
- For no rationalization in the universe would allow him to define her as human.
- Extract from : « The Lani People » by J. F. Bone
- Rationalization and ratiocination merged in her mind very readily.
- Extract from : « Emma Goldman » by Charles A. Madison
- It is not the rationalization of Jewish dogma that he is interested in, nor the reconciliation of religion and philosophy.
- Extract from : « A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy » by Isaac Husik
- Juristically this seems to be a rationalization of the Roman innominate contract.
- Extract from : « An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law » by Roscoe Pound
- Rationalization: The process of substituting a plausible, false explanation for a repressed, unconscious desire.
- Extract from : « Outwitting Our Nerves » by Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury
- They either run to religion, and try to drown it in ritual—or they try to explain it away by some rationalization.
- Extract from : « The Final Figure » by Samuel Kimball Merwin
- Mark Twain's attack upon the failure of human life was merely a rationalization of the failure in himself.
- Extract from : « The Ordeal of Mark Twain » by Van Wyck Brooks
- Keep going and tell me what your rationalization and thinking was at that time.
- Extract from : « Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) » by The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
- You can become entangled with rationalization so easily when you want the facts to fit a particular theory.
- Extract from : « A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis » by Melvin Powers
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