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

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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

Matched Categories

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. 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.

2. Zac Moffat:

   Republicans are still very much in the television persuasion model, we are still having philosophical arguments about where we are, and meanwhile the Democrats arguing about the type of targeting to use.

3. Army Col. Robert Maginnis:

   Political appointees have a lot of political persuasion, they are essentially political animals kowtowing to their political masters who have an agenda.

4. 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.

5. Thich Tinh Giac:

   This year, due to COVID, there are fewer people releasing fish here, but there is a major change in attitude towards plastic bags, after years of persuasion, now they don’t throw the plastic bags into the water anymore but collect them to be recycled.