"persuasion" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /pəˈsweɪʒ(ə)n/ [UK], /pɚˈsweɪʒən/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-persuasion.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-persuasion.wav Forms: persuasions [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʒən Etymology: From French persuasion and its source, Latin persuāsiō, from persuādēre, from suādēre (“to advise, recommend”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*sweh₂d-}}, {{der|en|fr|persuasion}} French persuasion, {{der|en|la|persuāsiō}} Latin persuāsiō Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} persuasion (countable and uncountable, plural persuasions)
  1. The act of persuading, or trying to do so; the addressing of arguments to someone with the intention of changing their mind or convincing them of a certain point of view, course of action etc. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (a sort, type, or kind with respect to convictions and beliefs): overtuiging [feminine] (Dutch), kuppikunta (Finnish), Überzeugung [feminine] (German), убежде́ние (ubeždénije) [neuter] (Russian), itikat (Turkish) Translations (the act of persuading): oortuiging (Afrikaans), إِقْنَاع (ʔiqnāʕ) [masculine] (Arabic), հորդորանք (hordorankʻ) (Armenian), убеждаване (ubeždavane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), persuasió [feminine] (Catalan), 勸說 (Chinese Mandarin), 劝说 (quànshuō) (Chinese Mandarin), 說服 (Chinese Mandarin), 说服 (shuōfú) (Chinese Mandarin), overtuiging [feminine] (Dutch), persvado (Esperanto), persuasion [feminine] (French), Überredung [feminine] (German), πειθώ (peithó) (Greek), שִׁכְנוּעַ (shikhnúa) [masculine] (Hebrew), rábeszélés (Hungarian), meggyőzés (Hungarian), persuasione [feminine] (Italian), 説得 (settoku) (alt: せっとく) (Japanese), suādēla [feminine] (Latin), убедување (ubeduvanje) [neuter] (Macedonian), perswazja [feminine] (Polish), persuasão [feminine] (Portuguese), persuasiune [feminine] (Romanian), убежде́ние (ubeždénije) [neuter] (Russian), угово́ры (ugovóry) [masculine, plural] (Russian), coiteachadh [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), persuasión [feminine] (Spanish), chamuyo (english: River Plate) [masculine] (Spanish), ikna (Turkish)
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  2. An argument or other statement intended to influence one's opinions or beliefs; a way of persuading someone. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  3. A strongly held conviction, opinion or belief. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (a strongly held conviction, opinion or belief): قَنَاعَة (qanāʕa) (Arabic), убеждение (ubeždenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), убедителност (ubeditelnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), persuasió [feminine] (Catalan), 說服力 (Chinese Mandarin), 说服力 (shuōfúlì) (Chinese Mandarin), vakaumus (Finnish), suostutteleminen (Finnish), suostuttelu (Finnish), Überzeugung [feminine] (German), Überredungskunst [feminine] (German), meggyőződés (Hungarian), hitvallás (Hungarian), hit (Hungarian), felekezet (Hungarian), felfogás (Hungarian), pártállás (english: politically) (Hungarian), meggyőző erő (Hungarian), rábeszélő képesség (Hungarian), 説得力 (settokuryoku) (alt: せっとくりょく) (Japanese), Äwazeijunk [feminine] (Plautdietsch), убежде́ние (ubeždénije) [neuter] (Russian), убеждённость (ubeždjónnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), убеди́тельность (ubedítelʹnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), barail [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), beachd [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), kanaat (Turkish), kanı (Turkish), ikna (Turkish), kandırma (Turkish), איבערצײַגונג (ibertsaygung) [feminine] (Yiddish)
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  4. One's ability or power to influence someone's opinions or feelings; persuasiveness. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Collectives
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  5. A specified religious adherence, a creed; any school of thought or ideology. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  6. (by extension, often humorous) Another personal, animal or inanimate trait that is not (very) liable to be changed by persuasion, such as sex, gender, ethnicity, origin, profession or nature. Tags: broadly, countable, humorous, often, uncountable Translations ((by extension, often humorously) another personal, animal or inanimate trait that is not (very) liable to be changed by persuasion, such as sex, gender, ethnicity, origin, profession or nature): hovatartozás (Hungarian), faj (Hungarian), fajta (Hungarian), nem (Hungarian)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: perswasion [obsolete] Derived forms: burden of persuasion, persuade, persuasive, suasion

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "Not Hermes Prolocutor to the Gods,\nCould vſe perſwaſions more pathetical.",
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          "text": "Sadie curses, weeps, then, infected by Mr. Hamilton's writhing persuasions, prays and becomes penitent.",
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          "ref": "2010 February 6, “We don't need gay stereotypes”, in The Guardian:",
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          "ref": "2009, US Catholic (letter), May 2009",
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          "text": "1871 February 14, J.J., \"More Solution\", Latter-Day Saints Millennial Star, page 105.\nLet us pray that the next generation be all of the male persuasion.",
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          "ref": "1890, The Illustrated American, volume 4, page 308:",
          "text": "To say that a woman is of the female persuasion was originally meant for a joke. As such it might pass — once. You might, indeed, refuse to smile; still, you wouldn't feel like invoking the law. But the constant and persistent use of this unfunny bit of fun has frown to be something of a public calamity. It is matter or congratulation, however, that such linguistic lese-majesty is far more common in England than in America.",
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          "ref": "1919, Pere Marquette Magazine, volume 11, page 19:",
          "text": "AND turning for tor the moment from National to local affairs, we note there is a chimpanzee of the female persuasion out at Lincoln Park, of whom it is said that she can do everything but talk.",
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          "ref": "1967, Taxes. The Tax Magazine, volume 45, number 2, page 698:",
          "text": "This plainly implies that an equine animal either is of the feminine gender or is of the neuter persuasion.",
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          "ref": "1984, The Medical Journal of Australia, page 739:",
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          "ref": "2005, Lawrence Thomason, All the Sparks Fly Up!, page 78:",
          "text": "The moonlight was bright this night; playing the part of a miniature sun as it reflected off the white faces of the Caucasian troops, but failing to reveal those of the darker persuasion. \"One thing, Charlie can see them better than he can see me.\"",
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          "ref": "2015, Leslie Kelly, “No More Bad Girls”, in New Year's Resolution: Romance!: Say Yes\\No More Bad Girls\\Just a Fling, Harlequin, page 125:",
          "text": "She searched for something to say, something other than, So will this New Year's kiss be of the French persuasion?, and then found herself mumbling, “Vive la France.”",
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      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "the act of persuading",
      "word": "oortuiging"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʔiqnāʕ",
      "sense": "the act of persuading",
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        "masculine"
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      "word": "إِقْنَاع"
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      "code": "hy",
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      "roman": "hordorankʻ",
      "sense": "the act of persuading",
      "word": "հորդորանք"
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      "code": "bg",
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      "sense": "the act of persuading",
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "the act of persuading",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "persuasió"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "the act of persuading",
      "word": "勸說"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "quànshuō",
      "sense": "the act of persuading",
      "word": "劝说"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "the act of persuading",
      "word": "說服"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shuōfú",
      "sense": "the act of persuading",
      "word": "说服"
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      "sense": "the act of persuading",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "overtuiging"
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "the act of persuading",
      "word": "persvado"
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      "code": "fr",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "persuasion"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the act of persuading",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Überredung"
    },
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      "code": "el",
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      "sense": "the act of persuading",
      "word": "πειθώ"
    },
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      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "shikhnúa",
      "sense": "the act of persuading",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "שִׁכְנוּעַ"
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "the act of persuading",
      "word": "rábeszélés"
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
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      "word": "meggyőzés"
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      "sense": "the act of persuading",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "persuasione"
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      "alt": "せっとく",
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      "sense": "the act of persuading",
      "word": "説得"
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      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "the act of persuading",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "suādēla"
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      "code": "mk",
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      "sense": "the act of persuading",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "the act of persuading",
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      "code": "pt",
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      "word": "coiteachadh"
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      "roman": "ubeditelnost",
      "sense": "a strongly held conviction, opinion or belief",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "ca",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "persuasió"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "sense": "a strongly held conviction, opinion or belief",
      "word": "說服力"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shuōfúlì",
      "sense": "a strongly held conviction, opinion or belief",
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      "sense": "a strongly held conviction, opinion or belief",
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a strongly held conviction, opinion or belief",
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      "sense": "a strongly held conviction, opinion or belief",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "a strongly held conviction, opinion or belief",
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      "sense": "a strongly held conviction, opinion or belief",
      "word": "rábeszélő képesség"
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      "alt": "せっとくりょく",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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      "word": "kandırma"
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      "word": "nem"
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}

Download raw JSONL data for persuasion meaning in English (18.5kB)

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