suasiveness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]suasiveness (uncountable)
- (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.
- Persuasiveness.
Synonyms
[edit]- (persuasion): suasion
References
[edit]- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.