CONCLUSIVENESS Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

conclusiveness

noun

Definition of conclusiveness

as in effectiveness

the capacity to persuade the conclusiveness of DNA testing in paternity suits

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Recent Examples of conclusiveness On Friday morning, Burke’s defense team tried to sow doubt about the conclusiveness of the autopsy conducted in the case. — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2026 But his dictionary, with its conclusiveness, was a huge publishing success. — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025 Münsterberg argued for the machine’s application to criminal law, seeing both scientific impartiality and conclusiveness. — IEEE Spectrum, 31 July 2019

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Noun

The Policy Analysis Market (PAM) designed by Polk’s research firm, Net Exchange, for DARPA’s Information Awareness Office was one of many answers to questions raised about the effectiveness of US intelligence following 9/11.

— Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Beauty’s average audience size declined 30% year over year, while content performance slipped 1%, suggesting that effectiveness increasingly depends on creator quality rather than quantity.

— Fernanda Tronco, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of effectiveness

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The canvassing board is made up of Garcia and two county judges, and is responsible for determining the validity of ballots and whether they should be counted.

— Joshua Ceballos, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026
There’s a distrust in the validity of big data, with everything seeming more vulnerable than ever to outside influence by unseen forces with specific agendas.

— Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of validity

Noun

And although American vagrancy laws were deemed unconstitutionally vague and overturned in 1972, police maintained the authority to make arrests based on suspicious types of nonaction.

— Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Michael Buschbacher, a partner at the law firm Boyden Gray, said states do now and will still have authority over mitigating climate change and greenhouse gas emissions within their own borders.

— Callie Patteson, The Washington Examiner, 1 Oct. 2026

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