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reason

nounid 3762·updated May 12, 2026
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A cause, explanation, or justification for an action or event.

polysemous

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Classifications

Entity Type

Artifact0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1

Sensitivity

50%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

50%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

synonym
causegroundreasonablenessunderstanding
alternatephrasing
Reason
plural
reasons
possessive
reason's
pluralpossessive
reasons'

Framework definitions

NERC CIP-005-5 (Electronic Security Perimeters) v51 senseview framework →
§1
A cause, explanation, or justification for an action or event.
NERC CIP-004-6 (Personnel & Training) v61 senseview framework →
§1
A cause, explanation, or justification for an action or event.
Wordset Dictionary6 sensesview framework →
§1
the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
§2
a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion
§3
an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon
§4
a justification for something existing or happening
§5
a rational motive for a belief or action
§6
the state of having good sense and sound judgment
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
A cause, explanation, or justification for an action or event.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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