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järkeily — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • discourse noun Serious conversation or communication, spoken or written, on a particular subject.
  • ratiocination noun The process of thinking something through carefully and drawing logical conclusions.
  • rationalization noun The act of explaining something in logical terms, or the explanation that results.
  • speculation noun A guess or theory formed without firm evidence.

Senses

järkeily is used for these senses in English:

  • discourse (countable) Any rational expression, reason.
  • ratiocination Reasoning, conscious deliberate inference; the activity or process of reasoning.
  • rationalization (now, rare) The process or result of rationalizing, or expressing in rational terms.
  • speculation The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets.

discourse — full definition

  1. noun Serious conversation or communication, spoken or written, on a particular subject.
  2. verb To speak or write at length about a subject.

ratiocination — full definition

  1. noun The process of thinking something through carefully and drawing logical conclusions.
  2. noun Careful, precise thinking that follows sound logic.
  3. noun A conclusion reached through careful, logical thinking.
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