りせい – Vocabulary details

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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せい

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せい

Used in: 6

Composed of

り

reason; principle; general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon); (in neo-Confucianism) the underlying principles of the cosmos

せい

nature (of a person); sex; gender; sex (i.e. sexual attraction, activity, etc.); gender; -ty

Used in vocabulary (8 in total)

りせいてき

rational

ごうりせい

rationality; reasonableness

りせいのたが

the bounds of reason; the limits of (common) sense

りせいのタガ

the bounds of reason; the limits of (common) sense

じっせんりせい

practical reason or ethics

りせいにうったえる

to appeal to one's reason

じゅんすいりせい

(Kantian) pure reason

りせいろん

rationalism

Examples (4 in total)

怒いかりが彼かれからりせいを奪うばった。

Anger deprived him of his reason.

子こ供どもでもりせいがあると考かんがえられている。

Even a child is supposed to have reason.

人にん間げんにはりせいがあるが動どう物ぶつには無ない。

Man has reason, animals do not.