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Definition of Incisiveness
1. Noun. Keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect.
Generic synonyms: Effectiveness, Effectivity, Effectuality, Effectualness
Derivative terms: Incisive, Trenchant, Trenchant
Definition of Incisiveness
1. Noun. The quality or state of being incisive; incisivity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incisiveness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Incisiveness
Literary usage of Incisiveness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies in Literature and Style by Theodore Whitefield Hunt (1890)
"Closely akin to this originality of view is, Vigor or incisiveness of style—a mental
... incisiveness."
2. Rossetti by Arthur Christopher Benson (1904)
"The following account of his conversation has great interest:— " A certain
incisiveness of speech which distinguished his conversation, I confess myself ..."
3. Commentary on the Prophets of the Old Testament by Heinrich Ewald, John Frederick Smith (1875)
"It may also produce an agreeable effect in connexion with the incisiveness of a
proverb. f But the paronomasia is most natural to the prophetic style, ..."
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