| Main Entry: | persuasiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | control |
Synonyms: |
forcefulness, inducement, influence, power, strength |
| Main Entry: | eloquence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skillful way with words |
Synonyms: |
ability, appeal, articulation, command of language, delivery, diction, dramatic, expression, expressiveness, expressivity, facility, fervor, flow, fluency, force, forcefulness, gift of gab, grandiloquence, loquacity, meaningfulness, mellifluousness, oration, oratory, passion, persuasiveness, poise, power, rhetoric, spirit, style, vigor, vivacity, volubility, wit, wittiness |
Antonyms: |
dullness, inarticulateness |
| 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: | persuasion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | influencing to do, believe |
Synonyms: |
alignment, alluring, arm-twist, blandishment, brainwashing, cajolery, cogency, con*, conversion, enticement, exhortation, force, goose, hard sell, hook*, inducement, inveiglement, persuasiveness, potency, power, promote, pull*, seduction, sell*, snow job, soft soap, squeeze*, sweet talk, wheedling, winning over, working over |
Antonyms: |
discouragement, dissuasion, hindrance, prevention |
| 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: | weight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | importance |
Synonyms: |
access, authority, clout, connection, consequence, consideration, credit, effectiveness, efficacy, emphasis, forcefulness, forcibleness, impact, import, influence, magnitude, moment, momentousness, persuasiveness, pith, potency, power, powerfulness, prestige, pull, significance, signification, substance, sway, value, weightiness |
Antonyms: |
triviality, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | facundity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | eloquence |
Synonyms: |
articulacy, articulateness, articulation, eloquentness, expressiveness, expressivity, fluency, gift of gab, oration, oratory, persuasiveness, rhetoric |
| Main Entry: | genuineness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | authenticity |
Synonyms: |
authority, cogency, effectiveness, efficacy, force, foundation, gravity, grounds, legality, legitimacy, persuasiveness, point, potency, power, punch, realness, right, soundness, strength, substance, truthfulness, validity, validness, weight |
| Main Entry: | persuasion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
attractive, disposed, fascinating, hortative, hortatory, impulsive, induced, inspired by, instinct with, inviting, motive, persuadable, persuasive, protreptic, protreptical, provocative, seductive, smitten with, spellbound, suasive, swasivious, tempting
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