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say it: rash-uh-nuh-li-ZAY-shuhn
rationalization is a noun meaning "the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason". It is pronounced /ˌɹæʃənəlɪˈzeɪʃən/ — rash-uh-nuh-li-ZAY-shuhn. It carries 5 recorded senses.
the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening
psychiatry
(mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation
mathematics
the organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency
systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale
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 rationalization 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.