effectualness

1. 1.

   power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect

   Synonymseffectivenesseffectivityeffectuality

   Broaderpower

   Narrowerincisivenessefficacy

Other forms of effectualness

plural

effectualnesses·

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 effectualness

What does effectualness mean?

effectualness means "power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect".

How many syllables are in effectualness?

effectualness has 5 syllables: ef-fec-tu-al-ness. The stress falls on "tu".

What is another word for effectualness?

Close synonyms include effectiveness, effectivity, effectuality. 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.

Is effectualness a common word?

effectualness 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.