reasoning

1. 1.

   endowed with the capacity to reason

   Synonymsintelligentthinking

   Similarrational

Other forms of reasoning

plural

reasonings·

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 reasoning

What does reasoning mean?

reasoning means "thinking that is coherent and logical". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reasoning?

reasoning has 3 syllables: rea-so-ning. The stress falls on "rea". In IPA it is /ˈɹizənɪŋ/.

What is another word for reasoning?

Close synonyms include logical thinking, abstract thought, intelligent, thinking. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is reasoning a common word?

reasoning 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.