reasonabilityn.
/ˌriːzn̩əˈbɪlᵻti/, /ˌriːz(ə)nəˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /ˌrizn̩əˈbɪlᵻdi/, /ˌriznəˈbɪlᵻdi/ The quality or capacity of being reasonable (in various senses); reasonableness.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > [noun] > quality of being reasonable
reasona1325
skilfulnessc1440
reasonableness?c1510
rationality1628
reasonability1653
1653 T. Urquhart Logopandecteision ii. 32 The essence of man consisting in reasonability, he may be said to have little of man in him, that regards not another the more, for having his reason imbellished with the addition of Literature.
1865 Littell's Living Age 30 Dec. 630/2 ‘Flats’ or storey houses are, in Edinburgh, bought and sold and lived in as freeholds. Imagine the hearty kindliness and respect for rights and reasonability there must be in a proud, punctilious people who can do that.
1897 Advance (Chicago) 22 July 105/1 The reasonability of man, and the reasonability of the contention of God with his sinful creature.
1968 M. Harris Rise Anthropol. Theory (1969) ii. 38 In the nineteenth century..reasonability ceased to be the measure of progressive change.
1991 C. Greenland Take back Plenty (BNC) 126 ‘Hannah has it. You want to go and get it? That's where I'm going,’ he said, in tones of perfect reasonability.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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