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n. - The power of argument or evidence to cause belief.

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Usage examples (34)
  • He cannot be unreal -- the "convincingness" of his most sordid as of his most splendid passages; of his most fantastic
  • It is true that intuition has a convincingness which is lacking to intellect: while it is present, it is almost impossible to doubt its truth.
  • If this Cathedral had existed tor five centuries instead of "two decades, would it have gathered a kind of convincingness with the scratches of feet and the erosion of...
  • This is the reason of the convincingness of his characters, their dramatic truth.
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