persuasiveness
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- persuasive + -ness
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persuasiveness (uncountable)
- The capability of a person or argument to convince or persuade someone to accept a desired way of thinking.
- 1919, P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves:
- By using the utmost tact and persuasiveness, he was inducing his uncle to cough up very grudgingly a small quarterly allowance.
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capability to persuade
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