decisiveness

1. 1.

   the trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose

   “a man of unusual decisiveness”

   Synonymsdecision

   Antonymsindecisiveness

   Broaderresoluteness
2. 2.

   the quality of being final or definitely settled

   “the finality of death”

   Synonymsfinalityconclusiveness

   Broaderdeterminateness

Other forms of decisiveness

plural

decisivenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about decisiveness

What does decisiveness mean?

decisiveness means "the trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in decisiveness?

decisiveness has 4 syllables: deci-si-ve-ness. The stress falls on "si". In IPA it is /dɪˈsaɪsɪvnəs/.

What is another word for decisiveness?

Close synonyms include decision, finality, conclusiveness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of decisiveness?

The recorded antonyms are indecisiveness.

Is decisiveness a common word?

decisiveness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.