Grounds
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Basis or justification for something, as in "grounds for divorce." The collective land areas that compose a larger area, as in the castle grounds. The sediment at the bottom of a liquid, or from which a liquid has been filtered (as in coffee grounds).
Example sentence: Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do.
Reason
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process of deduction or of induction; to ratiocinate; to reach conclusions by a systematic comparison of facts.Hence: To carry on a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to formulate and set forth propositions and the inferences from them; to argue.To converse; to compare opinions.To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.To support with reasons, as a request.To persuade by reasoning or argument.To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons; — with down.To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument; — usually with out.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A cause:# That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.#: The reason this tree fell is that it had rotted.#* 1996, Daniel Clement Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, page 198,#*: There is a reason why so many should be symmetrical: The selective advantage in a symmetrical complex is enjoyed by all the subunits# A motive for an action or a determination.#: The reason I robbed the bank was that I needed the money.#* 1806, [Anonymous], Select Notes to Book XXI, in, Alexander Pope, translator, The Odyssey of Homer, volume 6, London, F.J. du Roveray, page 37,#*: This is the reason why he proposes to offer a libation, to atone for the abuse of the day by their diversions.#* 1881, Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady, chapter 10,#*: Ralph Touchett, for reasons best known to himself, had seen fit to say that Gilbert Osmond was not a good fellow.# An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation.#* 1966, Graham Greene, The Comedians, Penguin Classics edition, ISBN 0140184945, page 14,#*: I have forgotten the reason he gave for not travelling by air. I felt sure that it was not the correct reason, and that he suffered from a heart trouble which he kept to himself.# proof, more or less decisive, for an opinion or a conclusionThe cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, reasoning, and intuition; the ability to think.Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.due exercise of the reasoning facultyratio; proportion.
Example sentence: Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.