suasiveness

English

Etymology

suasive +‎ -ness

Noun

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

(persuasion): suasion

References

Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

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