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Meanings of reasonableness in English

Portuguese
razoabilidade
Catalan
sensatesa

The state of having good sense and sound judgment.

razoabilidade
Catalan
sensatesa

The quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person.

sensatesa
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Examples for "tenability"
Examples for "tenability"
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Semiconductor laser devices are readily available and practical radiation sources providing wavelength tenability and high monochromaticity.
Pubmed
2
He went further than Mr Collins and suggested that the tenability of the commissioner was now in question.
The Irish Times
3
The merit of his studies was at once recognized, but the tenability of his hypothesis was long and ardently disputed.
A History of Science — Volume 3
4
We use the proposed sensitivity analysis procedure to systematically investigate the tenability of the non-ignorable missing at random (NMAR) assumption.
Pubmed
5
Prout advanced this startling idea at first tentatively, in an anonymous publication; but afterwards he espoused it openly and urged its tenability.
A History of Science — Volume 4
1
What then is to be said of the tenableness of such a position?
On Compromise

The property of being moderate in price or expenditures.

Usage of reasonableness in English
1
The Samoan question; furor consularis; missionary squabbles; reasonableness of Minister von Bulow.
Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2
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Expressing one's view is well within the bounds of reasonableness, Johnson said.
Reuters
3
Mr. and Mrs. Canary at first scouted the reasonableness of the idea.
Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp; Or, The Mystery of Ida Bellethorn...
4
There is a certain reasonableness in the schemes of every comic opera.
Gossamer
5
Erasmus was no longer listened to; he was reviled for his reasonableness.
Crome Yellow
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So each excelled each, and all excelled all in this sweet reasonableness.
Barlaam and Ioasaph
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A plain man has no trouble in acquiring this tact of reasonableness.
On Compromise
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Tom seemed quite struck with the reasonableness of this observation, and hesitated.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 / A Mag...
9
The life of Christ has embodied a divine love, wisdom, patience, reasonableness.
Philebus
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To speak with any deeper reasonableness concerning faith, one must have faith.
An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant
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Then a question, startling because of its reasonableness: Why not order today?
Of Human Bondage
12
I knew you would see it! said Freddie, charmed at her reasonableness.
The Little Warrior
13
And if you do accept it, what becomes of His 'sweet reasonableness'?
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chapters I to XIV
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With these women the most salient quality in all their institutions was reasonableness.
Herland
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People seem to escape the constraints of reasonableness and decency in that environment.
The Guardian
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And the validity or reasonableness of the inference may be disputed.
Philosophy and Religion / Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge
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