Synonyms for persuasion
pərˈsweɪ ʒənper·sua·sion

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1. persuasionnoun

   Antonyms:
   dissuasion

2. persuasionnoun

   Antonyms:
   dissuasion

3. persuasionnoun

   Antonyms:
   dissuasion

4. persuasionnoun

   It is his persuasion that abortion should never be condoned.

   Antonyms:
   dissuasion

5. persuasionnoun

   Antonyms:
   dissuasion

6. persuasionnoun

   Antonyms:
   dissuasion

7. persuasionnoun

   Antonyms:
   dissuasion

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1. persuasionnoun

   Synonyms:
   assurance, belief, certainty, confidence, conviction, decision, determination, resolution, resolve

   Antonyms:
   disbelief, distrust, doubt, doubt, hesitancy, hesitation, incredulity, indecision, irresolution, misgiving, perplexity, question, scruple, skepticism, suspense, suspicion, unbelief, uncertainty

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1. persuasion

   Synonyms:
   conviction, inducement, creed, belief, opinion

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. persuasion, suasionnoun

   the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action

   Synonyms:
   thought, view, opinion, suasion, sentiment

   Antonyms:
   dissuasion

2. opinion, sentiment, persuasion, view, thoughtnoun

   a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty

   "my opinion differs from yours"; "I am not of your persuasion"; "what are your thoughts on Haiti?"

   Synonyms:
   idea, thinking, perspective, aspect, mentation, ruling, purview, cerebration, legal opinion, thought process, vista, view, survey, impression, thought, position, suasion, opinion, belief, prospect, scene, sentiment, panorama, eyeshot, horizon, judgment, judgement, sight, public opinion, notion, intellection, popular opinion, vox populi, feeling

   Antonyms:
   dissuasion

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1. • Belief

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1. persuasionnoun

   Synonyms:
   influence, inducement, incitement, suasion, bringing over

2. persuasionnoun

   Synonyms:
   conviction, creed, belief, doctrine, tenet, dogma, way of thinking

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1. persuasionnoun

   Synonyms:
   inducement, suasion, incitement, creed, belief

   Antonyms:
   dissuasion, coercion, constraint

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1. List of paraphrases for "persuasion":

   suasion, persuasive, persuasiveness, conviction, belief, lobbying

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How to use persuasion in a sentence?

1. Kristen Waggoner:

   My hot take: Good lawyers win with civility persuasion, not physical intimidation and threats of violence. We aren’t afraid to engage with people and ideas we disagree with. Apparently many of the students missed this lesson.

2. Jessica Price:

   At this point we're still kind of at that persuasion stage where we'd like to hope that we could persuade Colorado Republican Sen. Cory Gardner to vote for some common sense gun legislation.

3. Horace Bushnell:

   If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.

4. Gavin Newsom:

   We turn out our base, we're going to win, unquestionably, it's not a persuasion campaign. People are locked in. But the profound consequences -- particularly the leading candidate on the other side, Larry Elder -- people just need to take a close look.

5. Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916):

   [Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.