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Justify vs Rationalization - What's the difference?

justify | rationalization |

As a verb justify

is to provide an acceptable explanation for.

As a noun rationalization is

the process, or result of rationalizing.

justify

English

Alternative forms

* justifie (obsolete)

Verb

  • To provide an acceptable explanation for.
    • How can you justify spending so much money on clothes?
    Paying too much for car insurance is not justified .
  • To be a good, acceptable reason for; warrant.
    • Nothing can justify your rude behaviour last night.
  • * E. Everett
    • Unless the oppression is so extreme as to justify' revolution, it would not ' justify the evil of breaking up a government.
  • To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned.
    • The text will look better justified .
  • To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin
  • * Shakespeare
    • I cannot justify whom the law condemns.
  • * Bible, Acts xiii. 39
    • By him all that believe are justified' from all things, from which ye could not be ' justified by the law of Moses.
  • To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Related terms

    * -fy * just * justification * justifiable * justifiably * unjustified

    rationalization

    English

    Alternative forms

    *rationalisation

    Noun

    (wikipedia rationalization)
  • The process, or result of rationalizing.
  • A statement of one's motives, or of the causes of some event.
  • A reorganization of a company or organization in order to improve its efficiency.
  • (psychiatry) The concealment of true motivation in some non-threatening way.
  • (mathematics) The simplification of an expression without changing its value.

    • Synonyms

    * reasoning, rationale *(reorganization of a company or organization) consolidation *(concealment of true motivation) *(simplification of a mathematical expression)