RATIONALNESS Synonyms: 30 Similar and Opposite Words

rationalness

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In the 2025-2026 offseason, baseball fans, particularly on X, lost their collective minds and any and all connection with rationality when LA added Kyle Tucker and Edwin Díaz.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2026
These episodes cemented the importance of behavioral economics, revealing that human behavior often deviates from pure rationality, underscoring the need for robust financial regulation alongside monetary policy.

— Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026

Definition of rationality

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Derby fixtures — meetings between teams brought together by geographical proximity and driven apart by rivalry — have their own twisted tempo and warped logic.

— George Caulkin, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Now Druckenmiller is invoking the same logic against Bessent, who has crossed from the trading desk to the Treasury Department.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of logic

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McMillan, who was Prince’s lawyer for more than a decade, jumped on a Zoom with Rolling Stone to discuss Timeless, his reasoning behind the Netflix decision, the estate’s future plans, and much more.

— Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2026
The reasoning behind Criterion’s selections remains somewhat mysterious.

— Sophia Nguyen, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 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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