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say it: rash-uh-NAL-i-tee
rationality is a noun meaning "the state of having good sense and sound judgment". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the state of having good sense and sound judgment
“his rationality may have been impaired”
“he had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions”
the quality of being consistent with or based on logic
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rationality come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.