rationalizations
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Noun
- The cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening
- (mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation
- The organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency
- Systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale
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Words that contain the term "rationalizations".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
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| 1 | rationalizations | 6 | 1 |
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Words that sound like the term "rationalizations".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | representations | 5 | 10 |
| 2 | reorganizations | 6 | 2 |
| 3 | rehabilitations | 6 | 1 |
| 4 | prognostications | 5 | 0 |
| 5 | reconciliations | 6 | 0 |
| 6 | reconstructions | 4 | 0 |
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Words that are spelled similarly to the term "rationalizations".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
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| 1 | rationalization | 6 | 2 |
| 2 | nationalizing | 5 | 1 |
| 3 | nationalizations | 6 | 0 |
| 4 | renationalization | 7 | 0 |
| 5 | nationalization | 6 | 0 |
| 6 | denationalizations | 7 | 0 |
| 7 | denationalization | 7 | 0 |
| 8 | internationalization | 8 | 0 |
| 9 | rationalizing | 5 | 0 |
| 10 | radicalization | 6 | 0 |
| 11 | recapitalizations | 7 | 0 |
| 12 | realizations | 4 | 0 |
| 13 | personalization | 6 | 0 |
| 14 | marginalization | 6 | 0 |
| 15 | criminalization | 6 | 0 |
| 16 | capitalizations | 6 | 0 |
| 17 | ionization | 5 | 0 |
| 18 | nationalities | 5 | 0 |
| 19 | fertilization | 5 | 0 |
| 20 | brutalization | 5 | 0 |
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Definitions: 5
Fragments: 1
Sound Alikes: 6
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 0
Consonant Matches: 0
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