persuasiveness

Etymology

* persuasive + -ness

noun

  1. The capability of a person or argument to convince or persuade someone to accept a desired way of thinking.
    By using the utmost tact and persuasiveness, he was inducing his uncle to cough up very grudgingly a small quarterly allowance. 1919, P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves

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