Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The power of convincing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The power of convincing, or the quality of being convincing.
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- noun The state or quality of being
convincing .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the power of argument or evidence to cause belief
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Examples
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It is true that intuition has a convincingness which is lacking to intellect: while it is present, it is almost impossible to doubt its truth.
Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays Bertrand Russell 1921
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He cannot be unreal -- the "convincingness" of his most sordid as of his most splendid passages; of his most fantastic
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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If this Cathedral had existed tor five centuries instead of "two decades, would it have gathered a kind of convincingness with the scratches of feet and the erosion of weather?
The Quiet American Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 1955
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At the back door, out of inexorable necessity, in developed and convincingness and sincerity laid down by all authorities on the art of the short story.
Confession 2010
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"It's my property," the latter asserted with an air of legal convincingness.
CHAPTER XXX 2010
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It almost seemed to the captain that the blissful moment had already arrived, such was the persuasive convincingness of McCoy.
THE SEED OF McCOY 2010
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In your opinion, where does FANL rank among other famous treatments of anarcho-capitalism in terms of the convincingness of the text?
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In your opinion, where does FANL rank among other famous treatments of anarcho-capitalism in terms of the convincingness of the text?
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But while DH levels don't set a lower bound on the convincingness of a reply, they do set an upper bound.
How to Disagree 2008
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Rudy Giuliani is in as much denial about his chance to win the Republican nomination as he was about the convincingness of his mayor-era comb-over.
Murder on Denial Carter, Graydon 2007
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