persuasiveness

1. 1.

   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

   “the strength of his argument settled the matter”

   Synonymsstrength

   Antonymsunpersuasiveness

   Broaderpower

   Narrowerconvincingness

Other forms of persuasiveness

plural

persuasivenesses·

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 persuasiveness

What does persuasiveness mean?

persuasiveness means "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".

How many syllables are in persuasiveness?

persuasiveness has 4 syllables: per-suasi-ve-ness. The stress falls on "suasi". In IPA it is /pɚˈsweɪsɪvnəs/.

What is another word for persuasiveness?

Close synonyms include strength. 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 persuasiveness?

The recorded antonyms are unpersuasiveness.

Is persuasiveness a common word?

persuasiveness 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.