Word Meanings - REASONABLENESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Quality of being reasonable.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REASONABLENESS)

• justice
• impartiality
• fairness
• right
• reasonableness
• propriety
• uprightness
• desert
• integrity
• Sanity
• Rationality
• soundness
• lucidity
• wisdom

Related words: (words related to REASONABLENESS)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• SANITY
  The condition or quality of being sane; soundness of health of body or mind, especially of the mind; saneness.
• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• PROPRIETY
  1. Individual right to hold property; ownership by personal title; property. "Onles this propriety be exiled." Robynson (More's Utopia). So are the proprieties of a wife to be disposed of by her lord, and yet all are for her provisions, it being
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• UPRIGHTNESS
  the quality or state of being upright.
• INTEGRITY
  1. The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory. Sir T. More. 2. Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with
• WISDOM LITERATURE
  The class of ancient Hebrew writings which deal reflectively with general ethical and religious topics, as distinguished from the prophetic and liturgical literature, and from the law. It is comprised chiefly in the books of Job, Proverbs,
• RIGHT-ANGLED
  Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
• RIGHTEOUS
  Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution. Fearless in his righteous cause. Milton.
• SOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
• DESERTLESS
  Without desert.
• RIGHTEN
  To do justice to. Relieve the opressed. Isa. i. 17.
• RIGHT-LINED
  Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.
• FAIRNESS
  The state of being fair, or free form spots or stains, as of the skin; honesty, as of dealing; candor, as of an argument, etc.
• JUSTICESHIP
  The office or dignity of a justice. Holland.
• RIGHT-MINDED
  Having a right or honest mind. -- Right"-mind`ed*ness, n.
• RIGHT-HANDED
  Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria. Right-handed screw, a screw, the threads of which, like those of a common wood screw, wind spirally in such a direction that screw advances
• DESERT
  That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit. According to their deserts will I judge them. Ezek. vii. 27. Andronicus, surnamed Pius For many good and great
• RATIONALITY
  The quality or state of being rational; agreement with reason; possession of reason; due exercise of reason; reasonableness. When God has made rationality the common portion of mankind, how came it to be thy inclosure Gov. of Tongue. Well-directed
• INDESERT
  Ill desert. Addison.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• INJUSTICE
  1. Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. If this people resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• MISDESERT
  Ill desert. Spenser.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• SHRIGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer.
• OVERRIGHTEOUS
  Excessively righteous; -- usually implying hypocrisy.
• AFFRIGHTER
  One who frightens.
• EMBRIGHT
  To brighten.
• UNWISDOM
  Want of wisdom; unwise conduct or action; folly; simplicity; ignorance. Sumptuary laws are among the exploded fallacies which we have outgrown, and we smile at the unwisdom which could except to regulate private habits and manners by statute. J.
• PELLUCIDITY; PELLUCIDNESS
  The quality or state of being pellucid; transparency; translucency; clearness; as, the pellucidity of the air. Locke.
• WRIGHT
  One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc. He was a well good wright, a carpenter.