Synonyms for justification
ˌdʒʌs tə fɪˈkeɪ ʃənjus·ti·fi·ca·tion

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1. justification

   All these words express one's answer to a charge of wrong or error that is or might be made. Apology has undergone a remarkable change from its old sense of a valiant defense — as in Justin Martyr's Apologies for the Christian faith — to its present meaning of humble confession and concession. He who offers an apology admits himself, at least technically and seemingly, in the wrong. An apology is for what one has done or left undone; an excuse may be for what one proposes to do or leave undone as well; as, one sends beforehand his excuse for not accepting an invitation; if he should fail either to be present or to excuse himself, an apology would be in order. An excuse for a fault is an attempt at partial justification; as, one alleges haste as an excuse for carelessness. Confession is a full acknowledgment of wrong, generally of a grave wrong, with or without apology or excuse. Plea ranges in sense from a prayer for favor or pardon to an attempt at full vindication. Defense, exculpation, justification, and vindication are more properly antonyms than synonyms of apology in its modern sense, and should be so given, but for their connection with its historic usage. Compare CONFESS; DEFENSE.

   Synonyms:
   acknowledgment, apology, confession, defense, exculpation, excuse, plea, vindication

   Antonyms:
   accusation, censure, charge, complaint, condemnation, imputation, injury, insult, offense, wrong

   Preposition:
   An apology to the guest for the oversight would be fitting.

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1. justification

   Synonyms:
   vindication, apology, defence, advocacy, maintenance, plea, exoneration, exculpation

   Antonyms:
   condemnation, censure, conviction, protest, abandonment, inculpation, recrimination, implication, aggravation

Princeton's WordNet

1. justificationnoun

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

   "he considered misrule a justification for revolution"

2. justificationnoun

   a statement in explanation of some action or belief

3. justificationnoun

   the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning

   "the justification of barbarous means by holy ends"- H.J.Muller

Matched Categories

1. • Circumstance
   • Explanation
   • Vindication

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1. justificationnoun

   Synonyms:
   vindication, defence, exculpation, exoneration

2. justificationnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Theol.) absolution, sanctification, remission of sin

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1. justificationnoun

   Synonyms:
   vindication, exuplpation, exoneration, defense

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1. List of paraphrases for "justification":

   rationale, substantiation, reason, excuse, justifying, grounds, explanation, justify, justifiability, justifications, argument

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1. Srinivas Khuntia:

   There is no justification why you would stop all the mining operations.

2. Brett Eagleson:

   These documents involve a terrorist attack that occurred 20 years ago, and there is no justification to withhold them, we hope the Biden administration finally provides the information our families have waited to receive for 20 years, so we can stand together with the President at Ground Zero on 9/11.

3. Dr. Dale E. Turner:

   Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so relunctant to change It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.

4. Plinio Nastari:

   There is no justification for a reduction in gasoline prices at this moment, it would be a populist measure.

5. Ken Paxton:

   There is no legal justification to deny licensed, law-abiding citizens on campus the same measure of personal protection they are entitled to elsewhere in Texas.