convincing
adjective
persuading or assuring by argument or evidence.
convincingness
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a word derived from
convincing.
Example Sentences
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“He was competitive in there,” Haye said, with the convincingness of someone trying to sell a home with a hole in the roof.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025
It’s the artistry, the convincingness of the on-ice romance, that seems like it could be affected by an off-ice partnership.
From Slate ● Feb. 20, 2018
I was so swept up in the convincingness of my idea that I shelled out money from my own pocket for a researcher to do some digging overseas.
From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2014
But you can cut short the period between your introduction to your reader and his introduction to your counters, by spending more effort in preparing your copy and displaying a greater amount of convincingness.
From The Clock that Had no Hands And Nineteen Other Essays About Advertising by Herbert Kaufman
Milton, too, describes an Inferno, but it lacks the convincingness of one who has seen it for himself.
From Platform Monologues by T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker
