raciocinio

See also: raciocínio

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ratiōcinium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /raθjoˈθinjo/ [ra.θjoˈθi.njo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /rasjoˈsinjo/ [ra.sjoˈsi.njo]
• Rhymes: -injo
• Syllabification: ra‧cio‧ci‧nio

Noun

raciocinio m (plural raciocinios)

1. reasoning
   • 2015 October 25, Evgeny Morozov, “Silicon Valley contra la socialdemocracia”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Hace unos cuantos decenios, cuando el consumismo imprudente no había deteriorado aún nuestro raciocinio colectivo, esta actitud quizá nos habría parecido aberrante.

     A few decades ago, when reckless consumerism had not yet deteriorated our collective reasoning, this attitude might have seemed aberrant to us.

Further reading

• “raciocinio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28