| Main Entry: | validity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | genuineness, lawfulness |
Synonyms: |
authority, cogency, effectiveness, efficacy, force, foundation, gravity, grounds, legality, legitimacy, persuasiveness, point, potency, power, punch, right, soundness, strength, substance, validness, weight |
Antonyms: |
invalidity |
| Main Entry: | certainty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | positive assurance |
Synonyms: |
all sewn up, authoritativeness, belief, certitude, cinch, confidence, conviction, credence, definiteness, dogmatism, faith, firmness, indubitableness, inevitability, lock*, lockup, open and shut case, positiveness, positivism, rain or shine, setup, shoo-in, staunchness, steadiness, stock, store, sure bet, sure thing, surefire, sureness, surety, trust, validity, wrap-up |
| Notes: | certitude is a measure of a person's positive feeling about something; certainty is a measure of the degree to which a process or development may be realized |
Antonyms: |
ambiguity, doubt, hesitation, questionableness, uncertainty |
| Main Entry: | cogency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | effectiveness |
Synonyms: |
bearing, concern, connection, conviction, convincingness, force, forcefulness, pertinence, point, potency, power, punch, relevance, strength, validity, validness |
Antonyms: |
impotence, ineffectiveness, invalidity, weakness |
| Main Entry: | credibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | believeableness |
Synonyms: |
believability, chance, integrity, likelihood, plausibility, possibility, probability, prospect, reliability, satisfactoriness, solidity, solidness, soundness, tenability, trustworthiness, validity |
Antonyms: |
implausibility, improbability, unreasonableness |
| Main Entry: | effect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impact, impression |
Synonyms: |
action, clout, drift, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, enforcement, essence, execution, fact, force, implementation, import, imprint, influence, mark, meaning, power, purport, purpose, reality, sense, significance, strength, tenor, use, validity, vigor, weight |
| Main Entry: | effectiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | influence |
Synonyms: |
capability, clout, cogency, effect, efficacy, efficiency, force, forcefulness, performance, point, potency, power, punch, strength, success, use, validity, validness, verve, vigor, weight |
Antonyms: |
ineffectiveness, unproductivity, uselessness |
| Main Entry: | force |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental power, energy |
Synonyms: |
ability, authority, bite*, capability, coercion, cogency, competence, determination, dominance, drive, duress, effect, effectiveness, efficacy, emphasis, fierceness, forcefulness, gumption, guts*, impressiveness, influence, intensity, intestinal fortitude, obligation, persistence, persuasiveness, point, pressure, puissance, punch, push, requirement, sapience, stress, validity, validness, vehemence, vigor, willpower |
Antonyms: |
incompetence, weakness |
| Main Entry: | point |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | goal, aim |
Synonyms: |
appeal, attraction, bottom line, charm, cogency, design, effectiveness, end, fascination, intent, intention, interest, motive, name of the game, nitty-gritty, nub, nuts and bolts, object, objective, punch*, purpose, reason, significance, use, usefulness, utility, validity, validness |
| Main Entry: | punch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | energy, vigor |
Synonyms: |
bite, cogency, drive, effectiveness, force, forcefulness, impact, point, validity, validness, verve |
Antonyms: |
idleness, lethargy, unenthusiasm |
| Main Entry: | reality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | facts of existence |
Synonyms: |
absoluteness, actuality, authenticity, being, bottom line, brass tacks, certainty, concreteness, corporeality, deed, entity, existence, genuineness, how things are, like it is, materiality, matter, name of the game, nuts and bolts, object, palpability, perceptibility, phenomenon, presence, real world, realism, realness, sensibility, solidity, substance, substantiality, substantive, tangibility, truth, validity, verisimilitude, verity, way of it, what's what |
Antonyms: |
belief, fantasy, hypothesis, imagination, theory |