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| Main Entry: | validity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | genuineness, lawfulness |
| Synonyms: | authority, cogency, effectiveness, efficacy, force, foundation, gravity, grounds, legality, persuasiveness, point, potency, power, punch, right, soundness, strength, substance, weight, legitimacy, validness |
| Antonyms: | invalidity |
| Main Entry: | cogency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | effectiveness |
| Synonyms: | bearing, concern, connection, conviction, force, pertinence, point, potency, power, punch, strength, validity, convincingness, forcefulness, relevance, validness |
| Antonyms: | impotence, weakness, ineffectiveness, invalidity |
| Main Entry: | credibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | believeableness |
| Synonyms: | chance, integrity, likelihood, possibility, probability, prospect, reliability, soundness, validity, believability, plausibility, satisfactoriness, solidity, solidness, tenability, trustworthiness |
| Notes: | something is credible to the extent that it is worthy of belief, so that credibility is worthiness of belief; credence is an acknowledgment of such worthiness |
| Antonyms: | improbability, implausibility, unreasonableness |
| Main Entry: | effectiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | influence |
| Synonyms: | capability, clout, cogency, effect, efficacy, efficiency, force, performance, point, potency, power, punch, strength, success, use, validity, verve, vigor, weight, forcefulness, validness |
| Antonyms: | ineffectiveness, unproductivity, uselessness |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | legality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | legitimacy |
| Synonyms: | authority, justice, right, validity, constitutionality, defendability, lawfulness, permissibility |
| Main Entry: | certainty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | positive assurance |
| Synonyms: | belief, cinch, confidence, conviction, credence, faith, firmness, lock*, lockup*, setup, stock, store, sure thing*, surety, trust, validity, all sewn up, authoritativeness, certitude, definiteness, dogmatism, indubitableness, inevitability, open and shut case, positiveness, positivism, rain or shine, shoo-in, staunchness, steadiness, sure bet, surefire, sureness, wrap-up |
| Antonyms: | ambiguity, doubt, hesitation, uncertainty, questionableness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | effect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impact, impression |
| Synonyms: | action, clout, drift, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, enforcement, essence, execution, fact, force, import, imprint, influence, mark, meaning, power, purport, purpose, reality, sense, significance, strength, tenor, use, validity, vigor, weight, implementation |
| 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, gumption, guts*, influence, intensity, intestinal fortitude, obligation, persistence, persuasiveness, point, pressure, puissance, punch, push, requirement, sapience, stress, validity, vehemence, vigor, willpower, fierceness, forcefulness, impressiveness, validness |
| Antonyms: | incompetence, weakness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | punch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | energy, vigor |
| Synonyms: | bite, cogency, drive, effectiveness, force, impact, point, validity, verve, forcefulness, validness |
| Antonyms: | idleness, lethargy, unenthusiasm |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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