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りせい
Meanings
Noun
1. reason; reasoning power; (one's) sense
Alt. forms
理り性せい
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りせい
Pitch accent
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Used in: 6
Composed of
reason; principle; general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon); (in neo-Confucianism) the underlying principles of the cosmos
nature (of a person); sex; gender; sex (i.e. sexual attraction, activity, etc.); gender; -ty
Used in vocabulary (8 in total)
rational
rationality; reasonableness
the bounds of reason; the limits of (common) sense
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Examples (4 in total)
Anger deprived him of his reason.
Even a child is supposed to have reason.
Man has reason, animals do not.
He lost his reason when he saw his house burn down.