Burden and Reasoning

Burden

Burden noun - A mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported.

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Reasoning and burden are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Reasoning" instead a noun "Burden".

Nearby Words: burdened, burdensome, burdening

Reasoning noun - The thought processes that have been established as leading to valid solutions to problems.

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Burden and reasoning are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Burden" instead a noun "Reasoning".

Nearby Words: reason, reasonable, reasoned, reasonably

emotional	emotional burden	emotional reasoning
full	full burden	full reasoning
logical	logical burden	logical reasoning
actual	actual burden	actual reasoning
Other adjectives: real, tragic, main, moral, economic.

Gorath is left behind because he'd be less helpful and more of a burden in a straight-up magician-vs-magician fight if it comes to that, and hurt their chances of reasoning with him if it doesn't.

Source: Locked Out of the Fight
Wesley's reasoning for kidnapping Connor in Angel is that, though he's betraying his friends and they'll hate him forever, he's saving Connor and sparing them the burden of knowing that Angel's prophesied to kill his son.

Source: Zero-Approval Gambit
Mrs. Patternoster, the Slice midwife, posits that the choice should have been up to the husband/father; Granny retorts that he's done nothing to deserve being hurt so badly (reasoning that she is better able to bear the burden of a Sadistic Choice than he is).

Source: Sadistic Choice / Literature

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