'Persuasion' definitions:
Definition of 'persuasion'
(from WordNet)
noun
The act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action [syn: persuasion, suasion] [ant: dissuasion]
noun
Definition of 'Persuasion'
From: GCIDE
- Persuasion \Per*sua"sion\, n. [L. persuasio; Cf. F. persuasion.]
- 1. The act of persuading; the act of influencing the mind by arguments or reasons offered, or by anything that moves the mind or passions, or inclines the will to a determination. [1913 Webster]
- For thou hast all the arts of fine persuasion. --Otway. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The state of being persuaded or convinced; settled opinion or conviction, which has been induced. [1913 Webster]
- If the general persuasion of all men does so account it. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- My firm persuasion is, at least sometimes, That Heaven will weigh man's virtues and his crimes With nice attention. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A creed or belief; a sect or party adhering to a certain creed or system of opinions; as, of the same persuasion; all persuasions are agreed. [1913 Webster]
- Of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political. --Jefferson. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The power or quality of persuading; persuasiveness. [1913 Webster]
- Is 't possible that my deserts to you Can lack persuasion? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. That which persuades; a persuasive. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Syn: See Conviction. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'persuasion'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adherents,
- affiliation,
- allurement,
- ascendancy,
- authority,
- belief,
- bias,
- blandishment,
- blood,
- body,
- branch,
- brand,
- breed,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- cast,
- character,
- charisma,
- charm,
- church,
- clan,
- class,
- clout,
- coaxing,
- color,
- communion,
- community,
- confession,
- connection,
- conning,
- consequence,
- control,
- conversion,
- conviction,
- credit,
- creed,
- cult,
- denomination,
- description,
- designation,
- disciples,
- division,
- dominance,
- domination,
- effect,
- eminence,
- enchantment,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- esteem,
- evangelization,
- exhortation,
- exhorting,
- eye,
- faction,
- faith,
- favor,
- feather,
- feeling,
- fellowship,
- fixed opinion,
- followers,
- force,
- form,
- genre,
- genus,
- good feeling,
- grain,
- group,
- hold,
- hortation,
- ilk,
- implicit belief,
- importance,
- incidental power,
- inducement,
- inducing,
- influence,
- influencing,
- influentiality,
- insinuation,
- ism,
- jawboning,
- kidney,
- kin,
- kind,
- label,
- leadership,
- leverage,
- line,
- lobbying,
- lot,
- magnetism,
- make,
- manner,
- mark,
- mastery,
- mature judgment,
- mind,
- mold,
- moment,
- nature,
- number,
- offshoot,
- opinion,
- order,
- organization,
- partiality,
- party,
- personality,
- persuading,
- phylum,
- potency,
- power,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- predilection,
- predominance,
- prejudice,
- preponderance,
- prepossession,
- pressure,
- prestige,
- proselytism,
- proselytization,
- purchase,
- race,
- reign,
- religion,
- religious order,
- repute,
- rule,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- say,
- schism,
- school,
- school of thought,
- sect,
- sectarism,
- segment,
- selling,
- sentiment,
- settled judgment,
- shape,
- snow job,
- society,
- soft soap,
- solicitation,
- sort,
- species,
- stamp,
- staunch belief,
- steadfast faith,
- strain,
- stripe,
- style,
- suasion,
- subtle influence,
- suggestion,
- supremacy,
- sway,
- sweet talk,
- the like of,
- the likes of,
- tribe,
- type,
- unshaken confidence,
- upper hand,
- variety,
- version,
- view,
- weight,
- wheedling,
- whip hand,
- working on