reasonableness


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
reasonable/ˈriːznəbl/
adjective
  • 1 fair and sensible.
  • 2 archaic able to reason logically.
  • 3 as much as is appropriate or fair; moderate.

    ■ fairly good.

    ■ relatively inexpensive.

– derivatives
reasonableness noun,
reasonably adverb.
– origin ME: from OFr. raisonable, suggested by L. rationabilis ‘rational’, from ratio (see reason).
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