Word Meanings - REASONING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.

Additional info about word: REASONING

1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay. Syn. -- Argumentation; argument. -- Reasoning, Argumentation. Few words are more interchanged than these; and yet, technically, there is a difference between them. Reasoning is the broader term, including both deduction and induction. Argumentation denotes simply the former, and descends from the whole to some included part; while reasoning embraces also the latter, and ascends from a part to a whole. See Induction. Reasoning is occupied with ideas and their relations; argumentation has to do with the forms of logic. A thesis is set down: you attack, I defend it; you insist, I prove; you distinguish, I destroy your distinctions; my replies balance or overturn your objections. Such is argumentation. It supposes that there are two sides, and that both agree to the same rules. Reasoning, on the other hand, is often a natural process, by which we form, from the general analogy of nature, or special presumptions in the case, conclusions which have greater or less degrees of force, and which may be strengthened or weakened by subsequent experience.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REASONING)

• Argument
• Reasoning
• controversy
• evidence
• discussion
• topic
• dispute
• Rational
• Sane
• sound
• intelligent
• reasoning
• reasonable
• judicious
• sober
• sensible
• probable
• equitable
• moderate
• fair
• Reason
• Ground
• account
• cause
• explanation
• motive
• proof
• apology
• understanding
• rationality
• right
• propriety
• justice
• order
• object
• sake
• purpose
• Thought
• Reflection
• cogitation
• supposition
• view
• sentiment
• meditation
• conception
• idea
• opinion
• judgment
• conceit
• fancy
• design
• intention
• deliberation
• care
• provision

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of REASONING)

• Disesteem
• misestimate
• mystify
• understate
• undervalue
• perplex
• darken
• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake

Related words: (words related to REASONING)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• JUDGMENT
  The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• OPINIONATOR
  An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
• RATIONALIZATION
  The act or process of rationalizing.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• APOLOGY
  1. Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity. It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem;
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• ACCOUNTANTSHIP
  The office or employment of an accountant.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• RATIONALISTIC; RATIONALISTICAL
  Belonging to, or in accordance with, the principles of rationalism. -- Ra`tion*al*is"tic*al*ly, adv.
• REASONING
  1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
• SUPERCONCEPTION
  Superfetation. Sir T. Browne.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• INEVIDENCE
  Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• UNPERPLEX
  To free from perplexity. Donne.