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Reasonableness

noun

The state of having good sense and sound judgment. Synonyms: rationality, reason. "He had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions"

Goodness of reason and judgment.

The property of being moderate in price or expenditures. Synonyms: moderateness, modestness. "The modestness of the living standards here becomes obvious immediately"

Moderation in expectations.

The quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person. Synonyms: tenability, tenableness.

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"Reasonableness" Quotes from Famous Books

... Washington, following some tentative gestures in that direction, accepted the new dispensation outright. In Smyth v. Ames decided that year, partially overturning Munn v. Illinois, it gave notice of its intention to review in detail the "reasonableness" of railway rates set by State authority and in Holden v. Hardy it ratified, at the same term, the doctrine of freedom of contract.[70] The result of the two holdings for the Court's constitutional jurisdiction ...

— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin

... seemed to him that he had never talked to anyone who possessed more of that sweetness and wide reasonableness of outlook upon life which ought to be the end of education. He tried to express something of what he felt, but Hope stopped him and turned the talk into ...

— The Northern Iron - 1907 • George A. Birmingham

... her daughter, who sat motionless, with her hands clasped. Then she was filled with the spirit of reasonableness and sense: all this tragic to-do about what might never happen seemed to her ...

— Come Rack! Come Rope! • Robert Hugh Benson

... was when there was no time—something existed when there was nothing, which something created everything; its advocates would be tongue-tied and lost if reduced to the hard necessity of appealing to facts, or rigidly regarding rules of philosophising, which have only their reasonableness to recommend them. They profess ability to account for nature, and are of course exceedingly eager to justify a profession so presumptuous. This eagerness betrays them into courses, of which no one bent ...

— An Apology for Atheism - Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination - by One of Its Apostles • Charles Southwell

... concessions, monopolies, railways, and mines, and endeavouring to get their claims supported by gunboats. The Chinese are not, as a rule, good soldiers, because the causes for which they are asked to fight are not worth fighting for, and they know it. But that is only a proof of their reasonableness. ...

— The Problem of China • Bertrand Russell

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