as in effectiveness
the capacity to persuade
the persuasiveness of her closing statement changed the minds of several jurors who had been leaning toward conviction
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Recent Examples of persuasiveness
That McDuffie is close—despite his low-key affect and late entry in the race—speaks more to apprehension about Lewis George than to the persuasiveness of his campaign.
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Idrees Kahloon,
The Atlantic,
1 June 2026
The persuasiveness of the AI persona is so strong that people can be misled.
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
The beauty and persuasiveness of Claude’s response to Marks alone may be cause for skepticism, because personalization is one of Claude’s core product features.
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Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
3 Mar. 2026
The study released Thursday is not the first to try to measure the persuasiveness of AI.
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David Ingram,
NBC news,
4 Dec. 2025
The film’s considerable power depends entirely on its moment-to-moment persuasiveness, on a set of narrative and aesthetic choices that, as presented—in a series of swift, kinetically composed, and jaggedly edited scenes—seldom feel like choices at all.
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Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
6 Aug. 2025
Idrees Kahloon,
The Atlantic,
1 June 2026
The persuasiveness of the AI persona is so strong that people can be misled.
—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
The beauty and persuasiveness of Claude’s response to Marks alone may be cause for skepticism, because personalization is one of Claude’s core product features.
—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
3 Mar. 2026
The study released Thursday is not the first to try to measure the persuasiveness of AI.
—
David Ingram,
NBC news,
4 Dec. 2025
The film’s considerable power depends entirely on its moment-to-moment persuasiveness, on a set of narrative and aesthetic choices that, as presented—in a series of swift, kinetically composed, and jaggedly edited scenes—seldom feel like choices at all.
—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for persuasiveness
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Mathematically, if quality is seven and acceptance is four, effectiveness is 28.
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For Tokyo, that complicates the effectiveness of any unilateral intervention.
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But his dictionary, with its conclusiveness, was a huge publishing success.
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Deputies served the warrant on Adrian Cruz and collected evidence that led to Cruz’s arrest on felony animal cruelty charges, authorities said.
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In an early instance of what authorities believe to have been an extortion attempt, federal prosecutors charged a California man with sending a fake ransom note via text message to Savannah Guthrie's family.
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Additional laser pulses reveal how much the ion’s quantum state has changed, allowing researchers to calculate the strength of the surrounding electric field.
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The link held even after accounting for traditional risk factors, though the strength varied by racial and ethnic group, a gap researchers say still needs further study before firm conclusions can be drawn about why.
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“Persuasiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/persuasiveness. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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