See Also: rationalization(medicine)
Rationalization(finance)
Rationalization(health)

fedity (iou) and rationalization (medicine)


fedity (iou)



fedity noun.M16-M18.
[Latin foeditas, from foedus foul: see -ITY.]
Foulness, loathsomeness; in pl., foul or loathsome practices.

rationalization (medicine)


rationalization


A defense mechanism operating unconsciously, in which the individual attempts to justify or make consciously tolerable, by plausible means, feelings, behaviour, and motives that would otherwise be intolerable.