Definition

1. Noun:
   • Reason; intellect; rationality: The human faculty for thinking logically, making judgments, and forming conclusions based on facts and evidence, as opposed to emotion or instinct.
   • Mind; understanding: The capacity for rational thought and conscious mental processes.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Trong lúc nguy hiểm, cô ấy vẫn giữ được lí trí sáng suốt. (In a moment of danger, she still maintained clear reason.)
  • Anh ấy quyết định dựa trên lí trí chứ không phải cảm xúc. (He made the decision based on intellect, not emotion.)
  • Lí trí mách bảo tôi không nên đi. (My mind told me I shouldn't go.)

Advanced Usage

• "tỉnh lí trí": to be in one's right mind; to be rational.
  • Lúc đó tôi không còn tỉnh lí trí nữa. (At that moment, I was no longer in my right mind.)

Variants and Related Words

• Lý luận (n): reasoning, argumentation.

  • Lý luận của anh ấy rất chặt chẽ. (His reasoning is very sound.)

• Lý tính (n): rationality, the rational faculty.

  • Đó là một kết luận thuần túy dựa trên lý tính. (That is a conclusion based purely on rationality.)

Synonyms

• Reason: the power of the mind to think and make judgments logically.
• Intellect: the faculty of reasoning and understanding objectively.
• Rationality: the quality of being based on or in accordance with reason or logic.

Related Idioms

• Lấy lí trí áp chế tình cảm: to use reason to suppress emotion.

  • Đôi khi bạn phải lấy lí trí áp chế tình cảm để đưa ra quyết định đúng. (Sometimes you must use reason to suppress emotion to make the right decision.)

• Mất lí trí: to lose one's mind; to become irrational.

  • Cơn tức giận khiến anh ta gần như mất lí trí. (The fit of anger caused him to almost lose his mind.)