FORCEFULNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forcefulness mean? 

• FORCEFULNESS (noun)
  The noun FORCEFULNESS has 1 sense:

1. physical energy or intensity

  Familiarity information: FORCEFULNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORCEFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Physical energy or intensity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

force; forcefulness; strength

Context example:

a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man

Hypernyms ("forcefulness" is a kind of...):

intensity; intensiveness (high level or degree; the property of being intense)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "forcefulness"):

brunt (main force of a blow etc)

impulse; momentum (an impelling force or strength)

energy; vigor; vigour; zip (forceful exertion)

Derivation:

forceful (forceful and definite in expression or action)

forceful (characterized by or full of force or strength (often but not necessarily physical))

 Context examples 

This forcefulness would make you furious that the school would do this to the entire student body. (I heard about a case like this, so this is not an imaginary situation.)

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)