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rationalisation 
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(TTS Sound)Overview of noun rationalisation
The noun rationalisation has 5 senses
- rationalization, rationalisation -- ((psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening)
- rationalization, rationalisation -- (the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason)
- rationalization, rationalisation -- ((mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation)
- rationalization, rationalisation -- (the organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency)
- systematization, systematisation, rationalization, rationalisation -- (systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale)