RE'ASONABLENESS, n. 1. The faculty of reason. [In this sense, little used.]2. Agreeableness to reason; that state or quality of a thing which reason supports or justifies; as the reasonableness of our wishes, demands or expectations.the reasonableness and excellency of charity.3. Conformity to rational principles.The whole frame and contexture of a watch carries in it a reasonableness - the passive impression of the reason or intellectual idea that was in the artist. [Unusual.]4. Moderation; as the reasonableness of a demand.
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