persuasion

• advice
• angle
• appeal
• assumption
• attitude
• authoritativeness
• authority
• belief
• believability
• blandishment
• brainwashing
• cajolement
• cajolery
• church
• coaxing
• cogency
• comment
• communion
• concept
• conception
• conclusion
• conclusiveness
• conjecture
• conversion
• conviction
• convincing
• convincingness
• counterview
• credence
• credibility
• credit
• credo
• creed
• cult
• decision
• definitiveness
• deism
• deliverance
• denomination
• determination
• doctrine
• dogma
• effectiveness
• entreaty
• esteem
• estimate
• estimation
• exhortation
• eye
• faith
• feeling
• force
• forcefulness
• guess
• heathenism
• hunch
• hypothesis
• idea
• impact
• impression
• inducement
• inducing
• influence
• influencing
• input
• judgement
• judgment
• lobbying
• might
• mind
• monotheism
• notion
• obiter dictum
• observation
• opinion
• outlook
• overpersuasion
• paganism
• pantheism
• perception
• perspective
• persuading
• persuasiveness
• polytheism
• position
• power
• pressuring
• presumption
• presupposition
• prompting
• punch
• recommendation
• reflection
• religion
• remark
• say
• sect
• seduction
• seductiveness
• sentiment
• shoes
• slant
• soundness
• stance
• stand
• standpoint
• strength
• suasion
• suasiveness
• suggestion
• surmise
• sway
• swaying
• take
• tempting
• theism
• theology
• theory
• thought
• urging
• validity
• verdict
• view
• viewpoint
• weight
• wheedling

• agnosticism
• atheism
• fact
• feebleness
• godlessness
• inconclusiveness
• ineffectiveness
• ineffectuality
• ineffectualness
• invalidity
• know-nothingism
• nonbelief
• powerlessness
• secularism
• shakiness
• truth
• unbelief
• unsoundness
• weakness

• noun
  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.
  2. An argument or other statement intended to influence one's opinions or beliefs; a way of persuading someone.
  3. A strongly held conviction, opinion or belief.
  4. One's ability or power to influence someone's opinions or feelings; persuasiveness.
  5. A specified religious adherence, a creed; any school of thought or ideology.
  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.

• She used gentle persuasion to convince him to join the team.
• His powers of persuasion are remarkable, he can sell anything.
• The teacher relied on persuasion rather than force to motivate the students.
• Political campaigns often depend on persuasion to win votes.
• Through careful persuasion, they were able to change public opinion.

backhander

faction

habit

obiter dictum

paganism

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