rationalization
Nouns
- (n) the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason rationalisation,
- (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 rationalisation,
- (n) (mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation rationalisation,
- (n) the organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency rationalisation,
- (n) systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale systematisation, systematization, rationalisation,