justification

1. 1.

   something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary

   “he considered misrule a justification for revolution”

   Broadercircumstance
2. 2.

   a statement in explanation of some action or belief

   Broaderexplanation

   Narrowercausedefense
3. 3.

   the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning

   “the justification of barbarous means by holy ends”

   Broadervindication

Other forms of justification

plural

justifications·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about justification

What does justification mean?

justification means "something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in justification?

justification has 5 syllables: jus-ti-fi-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /ˌdʒʌstəfəˈkeɪʃən/.

Is justification a common word?

justification is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with justification?

104 words rhyme with justification. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.