formidability

Examples

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• The theoretical argument proffered here is that followers tend to prefer leaders with greater physical formidability because of evolutionary adaptations derived from humans' violent ancestral environment.

  Academic text (2014)

• Key words: Leaders; followers; evolutionary theory; formidability; resource holding potential.

  Academic text (2014)

• In particular, individuals can visually gauge others' physical formidability in terms of strength and fighting skills.

  Academic text (2014)

• Formidability is defined as the potential to hold resources by imposing costs on challengers.

  Academic text (2014)

• At a certain point, a person can possess excessively large physical proportions that lead to unhealthiness instead of physical formidability.

  Academic text (2014)

• As noted by one of the anonymous reviewers, these findings raise the possibility that the effects of physical formidability and gender on leadership preferences may converge on the role of testosterone in leadership.

  Academic text (2014)

• Cuban women tend to be generously padded (particularly in the caboose, traditionally), but Mimina really was immense, which only added to her general air of formidability, as if she were a female Count Fosco.

  Blog text (2)

• This brief review suggests that threatening and non-threatening stimuli should differentially motivate preferences for physically formidable leaders via evolutionary psychological mechanisms, such that threatening conditions lead to preferences for leaders with greater physical formidability.

  Academic text (2014)

• Her formidability as a debater left the audience in awe and earned her widespread respect.

• The formidability of the mountain range intimidated even the most experienced climbers.

Synonyms

F

formidableness

vsformidability

8.7

A quality that makes something seem very impressive and hard to overcome

has the same meaning but uses a different noun form in writing

Antonyms

W

weakness

133 1.4

Lack of physical or mental strength that makes someone less able to act

I

insignificance

7 5.8

A state of not being important or having little effect

How Formidable

terror

282 4.9

menace

140 4.4

threat

∞ 2.3

formidability

8.9

obstacle

343 3.4

challenge

∞ 3.1

difficulty

651 2.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology