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suasiveness en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English suasive Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English suasiveness From suasive + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) The act of urging or influencing; persuasion.
    • 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. 1987, S. K. Heninger Jr., “Words and Meter in Spenser and Scaliger”, in The Huntington Library Quarterly, volume 50, number 3, page 311:
  2. (uncountable) Persuasiveness.

Synonyms

suasion (persuasion)