reasonability

noun

Definition of reasonabilitynext
as in reasonableness

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  1. possibility
  2. viability
  3. potentiality
  4. plausibility
Noun
  • One possibility is to promote a broader view of the liberal arts.
    Brian Mitchell, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • This may even spark a photo shoot or two—the possibilities are endless!
    Sherri Gordon, Parents, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of possibility
Noun
  • Already, the climbing temperatures are threatening the viability of all hatchlings.
    Luena Rodriguez-Feo Vileira, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Dec. 2024
  • But despite its transformative goals, the project remains politically contentious, with critics questioning its costs and viability.
    Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 25 Dec. 2024
Definition of viability
Noun
  • Practically, then, the translator reads with an eye to understanding the affordances offered by a text—to re-creating its potentialities, rather than merely offering a lexical equivalent.
    Max Norman, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Meanwhile, parsing-of-totality depends on advancing sensing techniques to harness atoms’ deeper patterns and potentiality.
    Pravir Malik, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of potentiality
Noun
  • Yet the balance Dead to Me struck was fragile; if the plot could get cartoonish, then the connection between the two leads, Cardellini and Christina Applegate, and the plausibility of their characters’ bond helped suspend disbelief.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
  • But the plausibility of this subplot is cursed by a clunkiness that recalls the more unbelievable moments of F. Gary Gray’s Heist.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Definition of plausibility
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