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EFFECTUALNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does effectualness mean?
• EFFECTUALNESS (noun)
The noun EFFECTUALNESS has 1 sense:
1. power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect
Familiarity information: EFFECTUALNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
effectiveness; effectivity; effectuality; effectualness
Hypernyms ("effectualness" is a kind of...):
power; powerfulness (possession of controlling influence)
Attribute:
effective; effectual; efficacious (producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect)
ineffective; ineffectual; uneffective (not producing an intended effect)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "effectualness"):
incisiveness; trenchancy (keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect)
efficaciousness; efficacy (capacity or power to produce a desired effect)
Derivation:
effectual (producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect)
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