suasiveness

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English

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Etymology

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From suasive +‎ -ness.

Noun

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suasiveness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The act of urging or influencing; persuasion.
    • 1987, S. K. Heninger Jr., “Words and Meter in Spenser and Scaliger”, in The Huntington Library Quarterly, volume 50, number 3, page 311:
      Protestant poets, however, wishing to proselytize, shunned esotericism and emphasized revelation rather than concealment. They spoke with utmost clarity for the purpose of suasiveness on a wide scale.
  2. Persuasiveness.

Synonyms

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References

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  • Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.