MEANINGFULNESS Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

meaningfulness

noun

Definition of meaningfulness

as in persuasiveness

Related Words

Relevance

Dissimilar Words

inarticulateness

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Recent Examples of meaningfulness How that gets translated is what’s most critical to the meaningfulness of what was sent. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026 This is realised when employees can see how their contributions actually map to the organization’s mission and vision, which drives a collective sense of achievement and meaningfulness. — Big Think, 29 Apr. 2026 In practice, the CRTC routinely consults stakeholders on policy matters although the adequacy and meaningfulness of efforts to consult the general public is often contested by scholars and civil society practitioners. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026 Energage surveyed 2,375 organizations throughout 2025 and recognized 1,661 thanks to their standout employee feedback on factors like pay and benefits, direction and leadership, meaningfulness, and appreciation. — Jessica Bryant, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026 This approach addresses a major tension in education research – cocreating educational resources with the people they are intended for enhances usability, meaningfulness and effectiveness. — Andres Bustamante, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2026 The survey asks employees for their feedback on such factors as pay and benefits, direction, leadership, meaningfulness, and appreciation. — Bob Helbig, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for meaningfulness

Noun

Others cite the lack of a persuasive justification for conflict, the strikes themselves and subsequent fits and starts of peacemaking as evidence that America’s global image has been undermined, as has the persuasiveness of its public claims.

— Christopher Nichols, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2026
The persuasiveness of these efforts, however, is diminished when a WRO is modified without transparency and despite readily accessible evidence indicating that conditions for the workers have not truly improved.

— Charity Ryerson, Footwear News, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of persuasiveness

Noun

Backhaus, by contrast, works it all out for her audience in terms that might be hopeful but lack theatrical cogency.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
In one of its most demanding assignments of recent memory, the San Francisco Opera Chorus led by John Keene embodies one population after another — monkeys, undersea dwellers, gods and heavenly hangers-on — and does it with power and cogency.

— Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2025

Definition of cogency

Noun

Factors affecting the intensity of racial profiling The forcefulness of police prejudice against minority groups depends on historical and social circumstances.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026
Evers, a seventy-four-year-old former science teacher, is not normally the loudest or most confrontational of politicians, so his forcefulness got attention.

— Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of forcefulness

Noun

The photography by Andrew Jacobs is juxtaposed against works by the Belgian artist Katrien de Blauwer, commissioned for the project to evoke emotion through color.

— David Moin, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026
These passages connect sensation and emotion without stopping to explain their relationship.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of emotion

Noun

For generations, Americans of every political persuasion have chosen to safeguard extraordinary places for everyone who would come after them.

— Mary Beth Laughton, Time, 14 Oct. 2026
Much of the public conversation has focused on persuasion, and this number suggests that isn’t where the biggest gap is.

— Christina Sass, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of persuasion

Noun

On a night this cold, the bursts of flame were almost as welcome as the spectacle, providing a few seconds of actual warmth to fans on the field and in the lower bowl.

— Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 18 Oct. 2026
Since it was released in 1995, this song has come to embody the warmth of friendship and the nostalgia of childhood.

— Stephanie Ganz Published, Parents, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of warmth

Noun

The intensity of their yearning has only increased on their second album, Nature’s Pill—and that’s no easy feat, considering this is a band whose breakout track opens with the narrator prostrating himself before the object of his affection.

— Colin Joyce, Pitchfork, 14 Oct. 2026
But Whalefall is no match for the earlier film’s suspense and intensity.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of intensity

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