RATIONALNESS Synonyms: 30 Similar and Opposite Words

rationalness

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as in rationality

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Noun

To take the intentional stance toward a system is to accord it a degree of autonomy and rationality—to say that its design is working.

— Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2026
But nuance, rationality, perspective, and experience are not valuable commodities in college football, however, considering social media dunks are far more exciting and attention grabbing.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of rationality

Noun

The combat scenes, frequently pitting Latif’s sharpened steel against more popular American weaponry, are staged with whirling verve, wit and, best of all, balletic coherence.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026
Smoothly edited by Kossakovsky-regular Ainara Vera, Holy Wood Dust gains a stronger semblance of coherence by the generous use of classical music alongside Adrian Berenguer’s bespoke original soundtrack.

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of coherence

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Xi equates compromise with weakness and has a hard time understanding the give-a-little-to-get-a-little logic that is the heart and soul of diplomacy.

— Orville Schell, Foreign Affairs, 16 Sep. 2026
The tool doesn’t know the company’s pricing logic and can’t see the customer history because that lives in a different system.

— Angelica Kopec, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of logic

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But when conversing with AI lab employees, the model tended to give answers that were more cautious and to use reasoning that was longer and more critical.

— Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026
Microsoft is combining multi-agent orchestration, advanced reasoning, HPC, robotics and potential quantum capabilities within emerging scientific and enterprise architectures.

— Ingrid Vasiliu Feltes, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of reasoning

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In one of its most demanding assignments of recent memory, the San Francisco Opera Chorus led by John Keene embodies one population after another — monkeys, undersea dwellers, gods and heavenly hangers-on — and does it with power and cogency.

— Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2025
TikTok’s algorithm started swamping me with humanities grad students of varying cogency.

— Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2025

Definition of cogency

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