effectiveness

Noun

(uncountable)

The property of being effective, of achieving results.
The effectiveness of the drug was well established.
The capacity or potential for achieving results.
The degree to which something achieves results.
He questioned the effectiveness of the treatment.

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effective +"Ž -ness

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It requires a radium salt of high radioactivity to be at all comparable in effectiveness with a good water-dropper.
The course of his narrative is unperplexed by doubtful or insoluble problems. The painting is filled in with primary colours and with a free hand; and any sense of crudity which may be awakened by close inspection is compensated by the vigour and massive effectiveness of the whole.
Howles, who, employing a high tension alternating arc, showed that the effectiveness depended upon the temperature.
The Mufaddaliyat differs from the Hamasa in being a collection of complete odes (gasidas), while the latter is an anthology of brilliant passages specially selected for their interest or effectiveness, all that is prosaic or less striking being pruned away.
No doubt they are subsequently guided to higher excellence and effectiveness with the experience gained in their oft-repeated performance.

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