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(psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening
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rationalisation
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n. (alternative spelling of rationalization English)
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In elementary algebra , root rationalisation is a process by which radicals in the denominator of an algebraic fraction are eliminated. If the denominator is a monomial in some radical, say $a{\sqrt[n]{x}}^k,$ with , rationalisation consists of multiplying ...
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n. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening [syn: rationalization ] the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason ...
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Nothing with any true sentience that we've found if, by 'sentience,' you mean capable of rationalisation and learning.
Two years have passed and with no signs of further rationalisation, the concerns have subsided.
Whatever the rationalisations and excuses, the one palpable fan remained that she had deserted her own father in his hour of greatest peril.
The rationalisations she had been trying to construct were now running around inside her head screaming to be let out and she let them go.