Rationalization

Noun

 * 1) The process, or result of rationalizing.
 * 2) A statement of one's motives, or of the causes of some event.
 * 3) A reorganization of a company or organization in order to improve its efficiency.
 * 4)  The concealment of true motivation in some non-threatening way.
 * 5)  The simplification of an expression without changing its value.

Synonyms

 * reasoning, rationale
 * consolidation

Thesaurus
account, adjustment, alienation, apparent soundness, approach, arrangement, attack, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, blame-shifting, blueprint, blueprinting, calculation, casuistry, charting, circularity, clearance, clearing, codification, compensation, conception, contrivance, coordination, decompensation, deduction, deductive reasoning, defense mechanism, demonstration, dereism, dereistic thinking, design, destigmatization, destigmatizing, device, discourse, discourse of reason, discursive reason, disingenuousness, displacement, disposition, dissociation, distortion, emotional insulation, enterprise, envisagement, equivocalness, equivocation, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, evasive reasoning, exculpation, explanation, fallaciousness, fallacy, fantasizing, fantasy, figuring, flight, foresight, forethought, game, graphing, ground plan, guidelines, harmonization, idea, induction, inductive reasoning, insincerity, intention, isolation, jesuitism, jesuitry, justification, layout, lineup, logical thought, long-range plan, mapping, master plan, method, methodization, methodology, misapplication, mystification, negativism, normalization, obfuscation, obscurantism, operations research, ordination, organization, overcompensation, oversubtlety, perversion, philosophism, philosophy, plan, planning, planning function, plausibility, plausibleness, prearrangement, procedure, program, program of action, projection, proof, psychotaxis, purgation, purging, ratiocination, rationale, rationalism, rationality, rationalizing, reason, reasonableness, reasoning, regularization, regulation, rehabilitation, reinstatement, resistance, restoration, routinization, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, setup, sociological adjustive reactions, sophism, sophistical reasoning, sophistication, sophistry, special pleading, speciosity, specious reasoning, speciousness, strategic plan, strategy, sublimation, substitution, subtlety, sweet reason, system, systematization, tactical plan, tactics, the big picture, the picture, vicious circle, vicious reasoning, vindication, way, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal, working plan

Alternative forms

 * rationalisation

Translations

 * Finnish: rationaalistaminen, järkiperäistäminen, rationalisointi, järkeily, päättely


 * Finnish: perustelu


 * French: rationalisation


 * Czech:
 * Finnish: järkeistäminen, rationalisointi, tehostaminen


 * French: rationalisation


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: rationalisatie


 * Finnish: rationaalistaminen


 * Finnish: sieventäminen


 * French: rationalisation