suasiveness
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
suasiveness (uncountable)
- (rare) The act of urging or influencing; persuasion.
- 1987, S. K. Heninger Jr., “Words and Meter in Spenser and Scaliger”, in The Huntington Library Quarterly, volume 50, number 3, page 311:
- Protestant poets, however, wishing to proselytize, shunned esotericism and emphasized revelation rather than concealment. They spoke with utmost clarity for the purpose of suasiveness on a wide scale.
- Persuasiveness.
Synonyms edit
- (persuasion): suasion
References edit
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.