effectiveness

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Etymology

From effective +‎ -nessCategory:English terms suffixed with -ness#EFFECTIVENESS.

Pronunciation

Noun

effectiveness (countable and uncountable, plural effectivenesses)Category:English lemmas#EFFECTIVENESSCategory:English nouns#EFFECTIVENESSCategory:English uncountable nouns#EFFECTIVENESSCategory:English countable nouns#EFFECTIVENESSCategory:English countable nouns#EFFECTIVENESSCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#EFFECTIVENESSCategory:Pages with entries#EFFECTIVENESSCategory:Pages with 1 entry#EFFECTIVENESS

  1. The property of being effective, of achieving results.
    The effectiveness of the drug was well established.Category:English terms with usage examples#EFFECTIVENESS
  2. The capacity or potential for achieving results.
    • 2013 August 31, Jack L. Goldsmith, “What Happened to the Rule of Law?”, in The New York Times:
      The problem with these precedents is that the Security Council did not authorize intervention in Syria, and an intervention there will thus harm, not help, the Council’s credibility and effectiveness.
      Category:English terms with quotations#EFFECTIVENESS
  3. The degree to which something achieves results.
    He questioned the effectiveness of the treatment.Category:English terms with usage examples#EFFECTIVENESS
    • 2013 September 1, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1-0 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport‎, archived from the original on 16 July 2018:
      United were having more possession but a sign of the effectiveness of Liverpool's defence was that it took the visitors 76 minutes to force Mignolet into serious action, when he dived to punch away a shot from substitute Nani.
      Category:English terms with quotations#EFFECTIVENESS

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