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Definition of Efficaciousness
1. Noun. Capacity or power to produce a desired effect. "Concern about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine"
Generic synonyms: Effectiveness, Effectivity, Effectuality, Effectualness
Attributes: Efficacious, Inefficacious
Derivative terms: Efficacious, Efficacious, Efficacious, Efficacious
Antonyms: Inefficacy
Definition of Efficaciousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Efficaciousness
Literary usage of Efficaciousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism by Matthew Arnold (1869)
"In all directions our habitual courses of action seem to. be losing efficaciousness,
credit, and control, both with others and even with ourselves; ..."
2. Penal Philosophy by Gabriel de Tarde, Rapelje Howell (1912)
"efficaciousness of penalties. Proofs and examples. §§ 88-90. HISTORICAL SUMMARY.
— (I) Changes in the penalty which universally lead to changes in the ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1858)
"Dr. Bennett's pathological researches do not lead him to neglect therapeutics,
nor to deny the efficaciousness of remedial agents. lie tells us early in his ..."
4. History of the Problems of Philosophy by Paul Janet, Gabriel Séailles (1902)
"... without wishing it to exist in some place, and without, through the efficaciousness
of His will, putting it in that place, ie without creating it there; ..."
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