decisiveness
Americannoun
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the quality of determining an outcome or of settling or resolving a question.
All the facts point to the decisiveness of that battle, to it being the turning point of the war.
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the characteristic or practice of deciding or acting without hesitation; resoluteness.
When buying real estate, decisiveness and patience are a rare but valuable and complementary combination.
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the quality of being unquestionable or definite.
This was the team’s most complete effort yet, as demonstrated by the decisiveness of the win—an impressive 62–21!
Other Word Forms
- nondecisiveness noun
Etymology
Origin of decisiveness
Example Sentences
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She is especially popular with younger voters who say they are drawn to her decisiveness, easygoing public persona and the fact that she is a woman at the top of the Japanese government.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
Instead, she said, McDonnell has lacked the decisiveness required to make real changes in the face of resistance from the police union and others.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025
The evaluator's rubric has six criteria to consider when determining the scores of the interview: intimacy, social desirability, general job abilities, decisiveness, cooperativeness and overall hireability.
From Science Daily • Jun. 17, 2024
His confidence and decisiveness allow a listener to hear a piece’s architecture, the way individual figures become phrases and then entire sections.
From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2024
President Truman, who felt he had shown a valorous decisiveness in ordering the bombs to be dropped, had no tolerance for retrospective moralizing.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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