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Rationalization

The act or process of rationalizing.

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Codification 76% connected

The act or process of codifying or reducing laws to a code.

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Defence 76% connected

See Defense.

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Defense 76% connected

Alt. of Defence

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Explanation 76% connected

The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in S…

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Organization 76% connected

The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body.

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Simplification 76% connected

The act of simplifying.

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Rationalize 74% connected

To make rational; also, to convert to rationalism.

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Rationalize 74% connected

To make rational; also, to convert to rationalism.

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Systematize 74% connected

To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize o…

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Systematize 74% connected

To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize o…

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Systematization 92% connected

The act or operation of systematizing.

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Cognitive operation noun · 86% connection

(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking…

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Cognitive process noun · 86% connection

(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking…

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Compensation noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors

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Confabulation noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered

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Conversion noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic ba…

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Defence mechanism noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

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Defence reaction noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

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Defense mechanism noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

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Defense reaction noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

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Defensive attribution noun · 86% connection

A tendency to blame victims for their misfortune, so that one feels less likely to be victimized in a similar way.; "Previous research…

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Denial noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts

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Displacement noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one

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Distribution noun · 86% connection

(statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence

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Fractal noun · 86% connection

(mathematics) a geometric pattern that is repeated at every scale and so cannot be represented by classical geometry

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Idealisation noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations — one good and one bad

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Idealization noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations — one good and one bad

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Intellectualisation noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict

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Intellectualization noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict

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Policy noun · 78% connection

a line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government; "they debated the policy or impolicy of the proposed legislatio…

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