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justification

/ˌd͡ʒʌstɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/noun5 syllables

Justification means: something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary.

What does justification mean?3

noun

1

something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary“he considered misrule a justification for revolution”

2

a statement in explanation of some action or belief

3

the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning“the justification of barbarous means by holy ends”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with justification?60

two syllables

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Justification in a sentence

  • In summary, you can call the ship, with complete justification, a floating sanatorium.Objectivesea
  • You have no justification to say something like that.tsp_2
  • There's no longer any justification for our marriage.Nuel
  • This is hardly a justification for betraying your friend's confidence.Nuel
  • I can't find any justification for your actions.Nuel
  • There can be no justification for harming a child.Nuel
  • Their pseudo-scientific rhetoric serves as justification for America's imperialist foreign policy.APagano
  • Until there is justification or evidence, we do not know if it is true what he says.Adelpa

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Forms of justification

as a noun

plural
justifications