efficaciousness
- noun
- /ˌɛfɪˈkeɪʃəsnəs/
- Formal
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eficacia
- We measured the efficaciousness of the training program by its impact on employee productivity.
Examples
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The study highlighted the efficaciousness of different teaching methods in improving student learning outcomes.
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Tony Earls, you've been for a long time researching community policing and it's it's efficaciousness or lack of.
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Clarissa said that Frank Barber himself was proof of the efficaciousness of Monsieur Desmoulins's schooling.
Fiction book (2001) -
The purpose of this study, therefore, was to examine how Native American young people identify and understand social skills, to investigate differences in their level of efficaciousness for the various types of social skills they identify, and to explore how the various social skills identified are associated with proactive attitudes and behaviors as identified in ICM theory (Lapan, 2004).
Academic text (2006) -
"My companion told me how, in the train, the young provincial woman with her list of approachable famous men Clara wrote, more bluntly, 'screwable,' threw herself at him with great efficaciousness" (Clara, vol. 4, p. 210).
Academic text (1998) -
The efficaciousness of the new drug was proven in clinical trials, helping many patients recover.
Synonyms
140
3.5
The ability to make something work as planned
41
7.4
The ability to produce the wanted result
Ability to produce the wanted result
Ability to produce the wanted result
The ability to get the result you want
Antonyms
How Effective
Surface Forms
Morphology
efficaciousness = efficacious (transparent) = efficacious + ness
Formed by the adjective 'efficacious' plus the productive noun-forming suffix '-ness', giving 'the quality of being effective'.
Etymology
Efficaciousness comes from a Latin root that means 'to make' or 'to do' and is the same root behind the word effect. So, efficaciousness is the quality of actually making the result you want.