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decisiveness

noun as in decision

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He must be a symbol of decisiveness, wisdom, and compassion.

Nothing like a former Communist country to show how to handle a problem—they have a long ignoble history of decisiveness.

Rather, it takes strategy, sharp eyesight, a quick finger, and a right-now decisiveness to play the game well.

They typically step forward to calm the nerves, ease the panic, and provide rapid decisiveness for those too stunned to react.

But patients hate this—they want easy decisiveness and jolly confidence as we march calmly, peacefully over the horizon together.

Her death had never been even a remote possibility to his mind, though the parting had had the decisiveness of death.

"Not much chance of that," said Aunt Maria with her usual decisiveness.

"Of course," said Buck, turning to him with sombre decisiveness.

The present, where we might expect the future, conveys the certainty and decisiveness of the result.

He is a most intelligent man, and speaks with such fluent decisiveness that all he says carries conviction.

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On this page you'll find 22 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to decisiveness, such as: assertiveness, firmness, willpower, conclusiveness, determination, and purpose.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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