RATIONALNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rationalness mean? 

• RATIONALNESS (noun)
  The noun RATIONALNESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being consistent with or based on logic

  Familiarity information: RATIONALNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RATIONALNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being consistent with or based on logic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

rationality; rationalness

Hypernyms ("rationalness" is a kind of...):

logicality; logicalness (correct and valid reasoning)

Derivation:

rational (having its source in or being guided by the intellect (as distinguished from experience or emotion))

rational (consistent with or based on or using reason)

rational (capable of being expressed as a quotient of integers)