Antonyms for persuasiveness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : per-swey-siv, -ziv |
| Phonetic Transcription : pərˈsweɪ sɪv, -zɪv |
Definition of persuasiveness
Origin :- 1580s, from Middle French persuasif, from Medieval Latin persuasivus, from Latin persuas-, past participle stem of persuadere "persuade, convince" (see persuasion). Related: Persuasively; persuasiveness. Replaced earlier persuasible in this sense (see persuadable).
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- The persuasiveness that could sway a mob ended by sweeping M. Binet off his feet.
- Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini
- This is the true rhetoric, the right road to persuasiveness, to be absolutely frank.
- Extract from : « Cyropaedia » by Xenophon
- And there was some pressure, too, besides the persuasiveness.
- Extract from : « Under Western Eyes » by Joseph Conrad
- He injected a little more of the oil of persuasiveness into his voice.
- Extract from : « Rim o' the World » by B. M. Bower
- He spoke with so much grace and persuasiveness that I was fascinated no less than the abbe.
- Extract from : « Mauprat » by George Sand
- The gravity and persuasiveness of all this is really impayable.
- Extract from : « Bardell v. Pickwick » by Percy Fitzgerald
- There is persuasiveness in a well-rounded muscular development.
- Extract from : « The Lumberjack Sky Pilot » by Thomas D. Whittles
- Yudushka yielded to the persuasiveness of these words, and kissed his mother's hands.
- Extract from : « A Family of Noblemen » by Mikhal Saltykov
- The most cruel, the most obdurate, can by no means resist his persuasiveness.
- Extract from : « The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci » by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky
- Those hawkers are artists, skilled in the arts and wiles of persuasiveness.
- Extract from : « Vignettes Of San Francisco » by Almira Bailey
Synonyms for persuasiveness
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