rationalness

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Noun
  • Lyra’s quest to understand Dust brings her into confrontation with human and other worldly forces who champion moral absolutism over imagination, ignorance over knowledge, authoritarianism over free will and cold, disinterested rationality over empathy.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The rationality police is back, Tennessee Titans fans.
    Nick Suss, Nashville Tennessean, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Remembering is the first step toward coherence — and coherence is the foundation of everything that endures.
    Big Think, Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
  • For the festival’s director, coherence is key.
    Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Set during the Yongle Era, Xixi said that Blade of Vengeance would break from the norm and the in-world drama would focus on realism and logic rather than fantastical feats, with the production emphasizing the real location shooting and hard-hitting action.
    Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The limits of logic To test whether this informational foundation could be simulated, the team relied on mathematical principles, including Gödel’s incompleteness theorem.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • According to the woman, her parents’ reasoning for denying her requests was rooted in a harsh lesson about independence.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 26 Oct. 2025
  • While no specific storyline explanation was given on the broadcast for their exclusion beyond Pearce barring them earlier in the night, the reasoning reported ties into a larger, long-term strategy WWE has for Breakker.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The underground man is someone who is cursed with ratiocination.
    Sean Illing, Vox, 9 Dec. 2024
  • No ratiocination similar to Parker’s point system.
    WIRED, WIRED, 23 Feb. 2023
Noun
  • TikTok’s algorithm started swamping me with humanities grad students of varying cogency.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Masterpiece remakes offer something very different, speaking to us with surprising urgency and cogency across time.
    Jim Shepard, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
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“Rationalness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rationalness. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.

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