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effectiveness

effectiveness

140 3.5
The ability to make something work as planned
  • noun
  • /ɪˈfɛktɪvnəs/
translation icon : eficacia
  • The effectiveness of the training program was evident in the employees' improved performance.
  • school effectiveness
  • evaluate the effectiveness
  • measure the effectiveness

They aggregate the buying power, they evaluate the clinical and cost effectiveness, and they negotiate.

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Examples

  • And we have unrivaled data, totally unique on the effectiveness of vaccinations in the real world.

    ZOE
  • And we're using it to assess the effectiveness of our cleaning.

  • And that will just add to the effectiveness of our our control efforts.

  • But this is just the ease I want and it's the effectiveness that I want.

  • Consider the effectiveness of a test for AIDS.

  • Before her, we relied upon word of mouth, and it limited our effectiveness.

  • Every test result verifies its effectiveness.

  • Although this occurred many years ago, the story is often used to illustrate the effectiveness of the Israeli security measures.

  • Still, there is a need to evaluate the effectiveness of these interventions among higher-income groups.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Designs are evaluated for design creativity and the effectiveness of the prototype.

    Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

efficacy
vseffectiveness
  • Formal
41 7.4

The ability to produce the wanted result

is the everyday expression of that same outcome ability
potency
vseffectiveness
  • Specialized
13 6.3

Strength of a drug or chemical to produce an effect

is broader, covering produced results beyond physical strength or chemistry
effectivity
vseffectiveness
8.2

Ability to produce the wanted result

is the common general term rather than a variant form
effectuality
vseffectiveness
9.1

Ability to produce the wanted result

focuses more on the general ability than on quality wording
effectualness
vseffectiveness
8.2

The ability to get the result you want

emphasizes ability broadly rather than the resulting state
efficaciousness
vseffectiveness
  • Formal
8.8

The ability of something to produce the result you want

is the simpler, more general way to name that capacity

Antonyms

Not able to produce the result you want

How Effective

potency
  • Specialized
13 6.3
efficacy
  • Formal
41 7.4
effectiveness
140 3.5

Surface Forms

effectiveness singular

Morphology

effectiveness = effective (transparent) = effect + ive + ness

Formation from the adjective 'effective' with the noun-forming suffix '-ness' is a straightforward, fully regular derivation.

Etymology

The word effectiveness comes from effect, which means 'result' and comes from an old root meaning 'to make', like a factory that makes things. So effectiveness is about how well something 'makes' the result you want.