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Justifying vs Rationalizing - What's the difference?

justifying | rationalizing |

As verbs the difference between justifying and rationalizing

is that justifying is present participle of lang=en while rationalizing is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun rationalizing is

the act of one who rationalizes.

justifying

English

Verb

(head)
  • rationalizing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who rationalizes.
  • * 1954 , Roscoe Pound, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law (page 140)
  • But it is evident that many of these are juristic rationalizings of what had been done for a long time through formal transactions.