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Forcefulness

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The characteristic or quality of being forceful

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. physical energy or intensity.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The character of being forceful.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. physical energy or intensity

Word Usage

"Vindication, according to Thomas Aquinas the translation of vindicatio as 'vengeance' is not particularly good, but it does a little better than 'vindication' at indicating the forcefulness the Latin word conveys, is an important virtue associated with justice."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

intensiveness intensity

Hyponym

vigor brunt zip momentum vigour energy impulse

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

force strength

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

resourcefulness

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

automaticity lovingness naïveté lustiness cowardliness tender-heartedness side-pee insensitiveness tactfulness proneness