Justification may refer to:

  • Reason (argument)
  • Justification (epistemology), a property of beliefs that a person has good reasons for holding
  • Justification (jurisprudence), defence in a prosecution for a criminal offenses
  • Justification (theology), God's act of declaring or making a sinner righteous before God
  • Justification (typesetting), a kind of typographic alignment
  • Rationalization (making excuses), a phenomenon in psychology

See also

  • Justified (disambiguation)
  • Justify (disambiguation)