suasiveness

English

Etymology

suasive +‎ -ness

Noun

suasiveness (uncountable)

1. (rare) The act of urging or influencing; persuasion.
   • 1987, S. K. Heninger Jr., “Words and Meter in Spenser and Scaliger”, in The Huntington Library Quarterly, volume 50, number 3, page 311:

     Protestant poets, however, wishing to proselytize, shunned esotericism and emphasized revelation rather than concealment. They spoke with utmost clarity for the purpose of suasiveness on a wide scale.

2. Persuasiveness.

Synonyms

• (persuasion): suasion

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.