|
|
Definition of Convincingness
1. Noun. The power of argument or evidence to cause belief.
Definition of Convincingness
1. n. The power of convincing, or the quality of being convincing.
Definition of Convincingness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being convincing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Convincingness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Convincingness
Literary usage of Convincingness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1905)
"Sometimes it seems to enwrap me with sustaining arms." Such is the human ontological
imagination, and such is the convincingness of what it brings to birth. ..."
2. The Principles of Argumentation by George Pierce Baker, Henry Barrett Huntington (1905)
"... as far as convincingness is concerned, the word "writer" may include any
speaker who writes out his argument before he meets his audience. ..."
3. Speech-making by Richard Dennis Teall Hollister (1918)
"Growing convincingness, the Order in Argument. In argumentative parts of the
speech, the principle of growth towards convincingness should determine the ..."
4. Victorian Prose Masters: Thackeray--Carlyle--George Eliot--Matthew Arnold by William Crary Brownell (1901)
"Far more frequently and much more seriously the convincingness of his picture of
life is vitiated by a twisting of its elements into supports for his thesis ..."
5. The Drama and the Stage by Ludwig Lewisohn (1922)
"based the convincingness or the reverse of every imaginative representation of life.
If, when we have granted a character every inner difficulty, ..."
6. Mathematical Philosophy: A Study of Fate and Freedom; Lectures for Educated by Cassius Jackson Keyser (1922)
"convincingness? Restraint? Beauty? In respect to these things no literature
surpasses the literature of mathematics. It may not indeed be easy to understand ..."
Other Resources:
