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persuasiveness

UK/pɜ(ɹ)ˈsweɪ.sɪv.nəs/

persuasiveness noun: the capability of a person or argument to convince or persuade someone to accept a desired way of thinking.

Noun

persuasiveness (uncountable)

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

persuasiveness meaning in Bengali and Kannada

persuasiveness in Bengali

প্ররোচনাশক্তি

persuasiveness in Kannada

ಮನವೊಲಿಸುವುದು, ಮನವೊಲಿಸುವಿಕೆ

Synonyms of persuasiveness

Origin of persuasiveness

* persuasive + -ness

Questions about persuasiveness

What does persuasiveness mean?
Persuasiveness means the capability of a person or argument to convince or persuade someone to accept a desired way of thinking.
What is persuasiveness in Bengali?
Persuasiveness in Bengali is প্ররোচনাশক্তি. See Persuasiveness meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is persuasiveness?
Persuasiveness is a noun.
How do you pronounce persuasiveness?
Persuasiveness is pronounced /pɜ(ɹ)ˈsweɪ.sɪv.nəs/ (UK).

Words near persuasiveness in the dictionary

  1. persuasions
  2. persuasive
  3. persuasive precedent
  4. persuasive precedents
  5. persuasively
  6. persuasiveness
  7. persuasives
  8. persuasory
  9. persubstituted
  10. persue
  11. persued

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Adapted from Wiktionary: persuasiveness (page history and authors); persuasiveness (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); persuasiveness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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