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Reasonableness

noun

The state of having good sense and sound judgment. Synonyms: rationality, reason. "He had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions"

Goodness of reason and judgment.

The property of being moderate in price or expenditures. Synonyms: moderateness, modestness. "The modestness of the living standards here becomes obvious immediately"

Moderation in expectations.

The quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person. Synonyms: tenability, tenableness.

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"Reasonableness" Quotes from Famous Books

... better, infinitely better, that you should be wholly uninterested in pictures, and uninformed respecting them, than that you should just know enough to detect blemishes in great works,—to give a color of reasonableness to presumption, and an appearance of acuteness to misunderstanding. Above all, I would plead for this so far as the teaching of these schools may be addressed to the junior Members of the University. Men employed in any kind of manual labor, by which they must live, are not likely to take up the ...

— On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) - A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature • John Ruskin

... that it would be best to leave Miss Lou to herself for a time, that she might think over and become reconciled to the need and reasonableness of their action, but Mrs. Baron considerately sent up her dinner by Zany. The unhappy girl shook her head and motioned the ...

— Miss Lou • E. P. Roe

... that has not, with its grime and its nastiness. In the dream that he dreamed the difference between the woman who had adornment and the other sad one back there in the cottage was as nothing. The irritating paradox of life was reconciled: there was great reasonableness in things, and he had ...

— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick

... own denial of the possibility of a Miracle, on nothing stronger than "the nature of" his own "antecedent convictions." Thus, the question becomes merely a personal one between Mr. Baden Powell and the Apostles of CHRIST. The reasonableness of the "antecedent convictions" in the one case have to be set against the reasonableness of the "antecedent convictions" in the other. Either party, (according to this view,) has its own "previous belief and assumptions;" which, in the one case, are known to have produced conviction; in the ...

— Inspiration and Interpretation - Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford • John Burgon

... suddenly developed a new and fighting resolve in him. If there was one type in Oxford he feared and detested more than another it was the Falloden type. To him, a Hellene in temper and soul—if to be a Hellene means gentleness, reasonableness, lucidity, the absence of all selfish pretensions—men like Falloden were the true barbarians of the day, and the more able the ...

— Lady Connie • Mrs. Humphry Ward

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