Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being persuasive or convincing; the quality of winning over the mind or will of another.
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- noun The
capability of a person orargument toconvince orpersuade someone toaccept a desired way of thinking.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty
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Examples
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Well, persuasiveness is in the mind of the beholder.
Economic Advisers Stoop to the Net, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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He did not hamper his exposition, like Hering, by a subsidiary hypothesis of vibrations which may or may not be true, which burdens the theory without giving it greater carrying power or persuasiveness, which is based on no objective facts, and which, as
Unconscious Memory Samuel Butler 1868
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But recall it is Bart himself who has set the criterion as "persuasiveness" rather than "soundness".
Balkinization 2006
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Just the "persuasiveness" of the reply which was duly noted.
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Just the "persuasiveness" of the reply which was duly noted.
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Just the "persuasiveness" of the reply which was duly noted.
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Just the "persuasiveness" of the reply which was duly noted.
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Just the "persuasiveness" of the reply which was duly noted.
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Just the "persuasiveness" of the reply which was duly noted.
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Just the "persuasiveness" of the reply which was duly noted.
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