persuasion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French persuasion and its source, Latin persuāsiō, from persuādēre, from suādēre (“to advise, recommend”).
Inflected forms:
form: persuasions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: perswasion
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of persuading, or trying to do so; the addressing of arguments to someone with the intention of changing their mind or convincing them of a certain point of view, course of action etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: With the base unleashed, the White House was unable to broker a compromise, either by persuasion or by pressure.
gloss: An argument or other statement intended to influence one's opinions or beliefs; a way of persuading someone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Not Hermes Prolocutor to the Gods,
Could vſe perſwaſions more pathetical.
Sadie curses, weeps, then, infected by Mr. Hamilton's writhing persuasions, prays and becomes penitent.
gloss: An argument or other statement intended to influence one's opinions or beliefs; a way of persuading someone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
euphemistic
uncountable
examples: Some of the shopowners were resistant to the extortion, so the mafia did some persuasion.
gloss: A strongly held conviction, opinion or belief.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is his persuasion that abortion should never be condoned.
Social understanding and equality can neither be nurtured through fear, nor intimidation. Surely this goes for people of all sexual persuasions.
gloss: One's ability or power to influence someone's opinions or feelings; persuasiveness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A specified religious adherence, a creed; any school of thought or ideology.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As a convert from the Baptist persuasion more than 40 years ago, I still feel like an outsider in the church despite the kindness and acceptance of Catholic friends.
gloss: Another personal, animal or inanimate trait that is not (very) liable to be changed by persuasion, such as sex, gender, ethnicity, origin, profession or nature.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
humorous
often
uncountable
examples: 1871 February 14, J.J., "More Solution", Latter-Day Saints Millennial Star, page 105.
Let us pray that the next generation be all of the male persuasion.
To say that a woman is of the female persuasion was originally meant for a joke. As such it might pass — once. You might, indeed, refuse to smile; still, you wouldn't feel like invoking the law. But the constant and persistent use of this unfunny bit of fun has grown to be something of a public calamity. It is matter or congratulation, however, that such linguistic lese-majesty is far more common in England than in America.
AND turning for tor the moment from National to local affairs, we note there is a chimpanzee of the female persuasion out at Lincoln Park, of whom it is said that she can do everything but talk.
This plainly implies that an equine animal either is of the feminine gender or is of the neuter persuasion.
Being a discussion between a Swede and an Australian of the medical persuasion, conversation turned to Pehr Edman who, as a Swedish expatriate, spent many years in Australia heading up the School of Medical Research at St Vincent's Hospital.
The moonlight was bright this night; playing the part of a miniature sun as it reflected off the white faces of the Caucasian troops, but failing to reveal those of the darker persuasion. "One thing, Charlie can see them better than he can see me."
She searched for something to say, something other than, So will this New Year's kiss be of the French persuasion?, and then found herself mumbling, “Vive la France.”
Antonyms: dissuasion
Related words: persuade
persuader
persuasive
suasion
Derived words: burden of persuasion
coercive persuasion
mispersuasion
overpersuasion
prepersuasion
repersuasion
self-persuasion
unpersuasion
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: убедителност
roman: ubeditelnost
lang: Catalan
word: persuasió
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 說服力 /说服力
roman: shuōfúlì
lang: Finnish
word: suostutteleminen
lang: Finnish
word: suostuttelu
lang: German
word: Überredungskunst
lang: Hungarian
word: meggyőző erő
lang: Hungarian
word: rábeszélő képesség
lang: Japanese
word: 説得力
roman: settokuryoku
lang: Russian
word: убежде́ние
roman: ubeždénije
lang: Russian
word: убеди́тельность
roman: ubedítelʹnostʹ
lang: Turkish
word: ikna
lang: Turkish
word: kandırma
lang: Dutch
word: overtuiging
lang: Finnish
word: kuppikunta
lang: German
word: Überzeugung
lang: Russian
word: убежде́ние
roman: ubeždénije
lang: Turkish
word: itikat