rationalizing

The act of one who rationalizes.

Noun

  1. The act of one who rationalizes.
    • But it is evident that many of these are juristic rationalizings of what had been done for a long time through formal transactions. - 1954, Roscoe Pound, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law, page 140:

Forms

rationalizings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of rationalize