rationality

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

rationality

Wikipedia

Etymology

From rational +‎ -ity, from French rationalité, from Late Latin rationalitas (“rationality, reasonableness”), from Latin rationalis (“reasonable”).

Noun

rationality (usually uncountable, plural rationalities)

1. The quality or state of being rational; due exercise of reason; reasonableness.

   His sudden loss of rationality was brought on by excess drink.

2. Objective consideration.

   Such a discussion deserves rationality, not emotional gut reactions.

Synonyms

• rationalness

Derived terms

• antirationality
• birationality
• bounded rationality
• epistemic rationality
• hyperrationality
• instrumental rationality
• irrationality
• nonrationality
• superrationality
• ultrarationality
• unirationality

Translations

quality or state of being rational

Asturian: racionalidá f Bulgarian: рационалност n (racionalnost) Catalan: racionalitat f Danish: rationalitet (da) c Dutch: rationaliteit (nl) f Finnish: rationaliteetti (fi), rationaalisuus (fi), järkevyys (fi), järkiperäisyys (fi) French: rationalité (fr) f Hungarian: észszerűség (hu), racionalitás (hu) Irish: réasúnacht f, réasúnaíocht f, réasúntacht f Italian: razionalità (it) f Latvian: racionalitāte f Norwegian: Bokmål: rasjonalitet m Nynorsk: rasjonalitet m Polish: racjonalność (pl) f Portuguese: racionalidade (pt) f Russian: рациона́льность (ru) f (racionálʹnostʹ) Spanish: racionalidad (es) f Swedish: rationalitet (sv) c Turkish: rasyonellik Ukrainian: раціона́льність f (racionálʹnistʹ)

objective consideration

Bulgarian: разумност f (razumnost) Finnish: järkevyys (fi), järkiperäisyys (fi) Tamil: பகுத்தறிவு (ta) (pakuttaṟivu)

Further reading

• “rationality”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “rationality”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.