convincingness
English edit
Etymology edit
From convincing + -ness.
Noun edit
convincingness (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being convincing.
- Synonym: persuasiveness
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 4, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
- The substance of the note was wholly insane, yet the manner of expression—in view of all that had gone before—had a grimly potent quality of convincingness.
Further reading edit
- “convincingness”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- convincingness, persuasiveness at Google Ngram Viewer