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Effectiveness   /ɪfˈɛktɪvnəs/  /ˈifɛktɪvnəs/   Listen
Effectiveness

noun
1.
Power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect.  Synonyms: effectivity, effectuality, effectualness.
2.
Capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects.  Synonyms: potency, strength.  "The strength of the drinks"






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"Effectiveness" Quotes from Famous Books



... entitled to praise for the general effectiveness of its work both in hospital and at the front. Embracing men of high professional attainments, and splendid women devoted to their calling and untiring in their efforts, this department has made a new record ...
— Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller

... have demonstrated their effectiveness in political campaigns, and wherever party candidates and party politics are up to the high standard which they have a right to demand they can be counted upon for loyal support. The Republican party in Colorado can only hope to triumph in ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various

... playing ball and picnicking, and it was easy for the cadets to follow the black-suited spaceman. They had to put on their oxygen masks as the deadly fumes of the methane ammonia atmosphere began to swirl around them. They were near the outer limits of the atmosphere screen's effectiveness. ...
— Treachery in Outer Space • Carey Rockwell and Louis Glanzman

... failure; treachery, incapacity and open hostility had failed to shatter it; and it grew apace in strength, influence, and resources. At home Fenianism, while losing little in numerical strength, had declined in effectiveness, in prestige, in discipline, and in organization. Its leaders had been swept into the prisons, and though men perhaps as resolute stepped forward to fill the vacant places, there was a loss in point of capacity and intelligence, and to the keen observer ...
— Speeches from the Dock, Part I • Various

... the great extent of its sea-coast and its numerous inlets would have been elements of great strength. The people of the United States and the Government of that day justly prided themselves on the effectiveness of the blockade of the whole Southern coast. It was a great feat, a very great feat; but it would have been an impossible feat had the Southerners been more numerous, and a nation of seamen. What was there shown was not, as ...
— The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 • A. T. Mahan


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