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Nouns (7)

n. the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action

n. 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?"

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Fuzzynyms (65)

compulsion, coercion

n. using force to cause something to occur; "though pressed into rugby under compulsion I began to enjoy the game"; "they didn't have to use coercion"

duress

n. compulsory force or threat; "confessed under duress"

opinion, view

n. a message expressing a belief about something; the expression of a belief that is held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof; "his opinions appeared frequently on the editorial page"

determination

n. deciding or controlling something's outcome or nature; "the determination of grammatical inflections"

belief, dogma, tenet

n. a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof

hope

n. the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled; "in spite of his troubles he never gave up hope"

confidence

n. a feeling of trust (in someone or something); "I have confidence in our team"; "confidence is always borrowed, never owned"

denomination

n. a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money; "he flashed a fistful of bills of large denominations"

impression, feeling, belief, notion, opinion

n. a vague idea in which some confidence is placed; "his impression of her was favorable"; "what are your feelings about the crisis?"; "it strengthened my belief in his sincerity"; "I had a feeling that she was lying"

concept, conception, construct

n. an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

attitude, mental attitude

n. a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways; "he had the attitude that work was fun"

prognosis, forecast

n. a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop

feeling

n. the experiencing of affective and emotional states; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual"

affection, affectionateness, fondness, tenderness, heart, warmness, warmheartedness, philia

n. a positive feeling of liking; "he had trouble expressing the affection he felt"; "the child won everyone's heart"; "the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home"

ardor, ardour, fervor, fervour, fervency, fire, fervidness

n. feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor"

inclination

n. that toward which you are inclined to feel a liking; "her inclination is for classical music"

position, stance, posture

n. a rationalized mental attitude

rumination

n. regurgitation of small amounts of food; seen in some infants after feeding

cogitation, study

n. attentive consideration and meditation; "after much cogitation he rejected the offer"

estimate, estimation, approximation, idea

n. an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth; "an estimate of what it would cost"; "a rough idea how long it would take"

thinking, thought, thought process, cerebration, intellection, mentation

n. the process of using your mind to consider something carefully; "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused for thought"

sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment, judgement, discernment

n. the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

intuition

n. instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)

prescience, prevision

n. the power to foresee the future

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Antonyms (2)

dissuasion

n. persuading not to do or believe something; talking someone out of a belief or an intended course of action

dissuasion

n. persuading not to do or believe something; talking someone out of a belief or an intended course of action

longing > hope > reflect > school of thought > exist in large quantities > invited > appreciated > persuasion

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