Authority
Authority noun - The capacity to persuade.
Usage example: a strict grammarian whose pronouncements carried plenty of authority with my third-grade English teacher
Effectiveness and authority are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Effectiveness" instead a noun "Authority".
Effectiveness
Effectiveness noun - The capacity to persuade.
Usage example: the “guilty” verdict was all the proof needed of the effectiveness of the prosecutor's closing argument
Authority and effectiveness are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Authority" instead a noun "Effectiveness".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- power and authority
- power and effectiveness
- force and authority
- force and effectiveness
- strength and authority
- strength and effectiveness
- significance and authority
- significance and effectiveness
- control and authority
- control and effectiveness
- leadership and authority
- leadership and effectiveness
- effect and authority
- effect and effectiveness
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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For example, a spymaster or master assassin gives a kingdom-wide bonus to authority and overall spy/assassin effectiveness.
Source: Standard Royal Court - And tellingly, despite having no jurisdictional authority (something they themselves point out), they show more competence and effectiveness in their two scenes than the local police demonstrate in the whole show.
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Of all the Klingons who consistently follow Klag's authority and have yet to pull a FaceHeel Turn, Lokor is basically the one guy who has the fewest scruples in screwing people over to get them to toe the line and not buck the system, and most of his methods are horrifying in their effectiveness.
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Effectiveness and Authority. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/authority/effectiveness
Authority & Effectiveness. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/authority/effectiveness>.
Effectiveness or Authority. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/authority/effectiveness.
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