rationability
rationability noun: synonym of rationality or reasonability.
Noun
rationability (uncountable)
- Synonym of rationality or reasonability.
- And, if on twenty pounds of fluid, one of humours is to be defalcated: ſhould you evaporate the whole together to one ſcruple, would you not always find in that ſcruple ſtill one grain of humours?—I will ſay no more, nor lay greater ſtreſs on that ſubjeft, but leave every one to judge for himſelf...1776, [Francis Spilsbury], “Scurvy”, in Free Thoughts on Quacks and Their Medicines, Occasioned by the Death of Dr. Goldsmith and Mr. Scawen; […], London: […] J. Wilkie, […] and Mr. Davenhill, […]...
- Since God’s revelation comes to full expression in human life, it is henceforth life with all its ambiguities and lack of rationability that becomes the norm.1968 February 13, Gabriel Moran, “The Future of Catechetics”, in Vision and Tactics: Toward an Adult Church, New York, N.Y.: Herder and Herder, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 26
- Synonyms:
- rationality, reasonability
Synonyms of rationability
Origin of rationability
From Middle English racionabilite, a learned borrowing from Classical Latin ratiōnābilitās. By surface analysis, ration(able) + -ability. Piecewise doublet of reasonability.
Questions about rationability
- What does rationability mean?
- Rationability means synonym of rationality or reasonability.
- What part of speech is rationability?
- Rationability is a noun.
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