rationalisation
- n (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening
- n the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason
- n (mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation
- n the organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency
- n systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale
- We have to go through the rationalisation, leave behind the irrational mistrust and move to a more rational and a more normalised view of what the world should be, he says.