rationalization

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ra=tion=al=i=za=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

rationalization, n. 

 The act or process of rationalizing.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

rationalization

account, adjustment, alienation, apparent soundness, approach, arrangement, attack, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, blame-shifting, blueprint, blueprinting, calculation, casuistry, charting, circularity, clearance, clearing, codification, compensation, conception, contrivance, coordination, decompensation, deduction, deductive reasoning, defense mechanism, demonstration, dereism, dereistic thinking, design, destigmatization, destigmatizing, device, discourse, discourse of reason, discursive reason, disingenuousness, displacement, disposition, dissociation, distortion, emotional insulation, enterprise, envisagement, equivocalness, equivocation, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, evasive reasoning, exculpation, explanation, fallaciousness, fallacy, fantasizing, fantasy, figuring, flight, foresight, forethought, game, graphing, ground plan, guidelines, harmonization, idea, induction, inductive reasoning, insincerity, intention, isolation, jesuitism, jesuitry, justification, layout, lineup, logical thought, long-range plan, mapping, master plan, method, methodization, methodology, misapplication, mystification, negativism, normalization, obfuscation, obscurantism, operations research, ordination, organization, overcompensation, oversubtlety, perversion, philosophism, philosophy, plan, planning, planning function, plausibility, plausibleness, prearrangement, procedure, program, program of action, projection, proof, psychotaxis, purgation, purging, ratiocination, rationale, rationalism, rationality, rationalizing, reason, reasonableness, reasoning, regularization, regulation, rehabilitation, reinstatement, resistance, restoration, routinization, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, setup, sociological adjustive reactions, sophism, sophistical reasoning, sophistication, sophistry, special pleading, speciosity, specious reasoning, speciousness, strategic plan, strategy, sublimation, substitution, subtlety, sweet reason, system, systematization, tactical plan, tactics, the big picture, the picture, vicious circle, vicious reasoning, vindication, way, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal, working plan