authoritativeness

noun

Definition of authoritativenessnext
1
as in imperiousness

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2
as in credibility

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for authoritativeness
  1. credibility
  2. validity
  3. dominance
  4. arrogance
  5. influence
  6. hauteur
  7. pomposity
  8. condescension
Noun
  • Taking sides in a political debate can damage your credibility and alienate certain team members.
    Stephen Nalley, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024
  • This attention to detail translates to trust and credibility, making investors more likely to believe in your vision and capabilities.
    Kate Buckley, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of credibility
Noun
  • Both have been scrutinized over signature validity.
    Zack Huffman, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Trump and his allies spread falsehoods about the validity of the vote count in Detroit in 2020.
    Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of validity
Noun
  • The dominance of automobiles and the infrastructure that supports them over many decades only seems inevitable in hindsight.
    Nir Eisikovits, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
  • According to both Ives and Musk, that’s likely positive for Tesla, given its dominance in the market.
    William Gavin, Quartz, 13 Nov. 2024
Definition of dominance
Noun
  • Dastmalchian gets to play it all — disbelief, arrogance, grieving, terrified — sometimes in the same moment.
    Jenelle Riley, Variety, 31 Oct. 2024
  • These things are a big investment of time and to have not one, but two of them that might otherwise have had a reasonable expectation of success — probably arrogance on my part — but still, many times an author who gets published once can get published a second time.
    Choire Sicha, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of arrogance
Noun
  • Such a test would be a sign of China’s weakening influence over Pyongyang and could spur Seoul to try to acquire nuclear weapons of its own—a position that both South Korea and the United States officially oppose but is gaining traction in Western policy circles.
    Sungmin Cho, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Powell's comments are likely to be seen as a bid to maintain the Fed's long-standing independence from outside political influence, though whether such immunity actually exists in practice has sometimes been debated.
    Rob Wile, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
Definition of influence
Noun
  • With his chilly hauteur and unflattering Prince Valiant hairdo, Jordan is a plain villain amid characters who otherwise collectively lurch between sympathetic victimhood and viciously cruel mob mentality.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The Academy Award-winning actress, known for her fierce talent and daunting hauteur, boasts a career spanning 60 years.
    Ian Malone, Vogue, 16 July 2024
Definition of hauteur
Noun
  • Critics sometimes faulted his performances for pomposity.
    Jill Leovy, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Berry says that Laszlo’s pomposity thrives because no one in the house is willing to call him out on his nonsense.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 15 Aug. 2024
Definition of pomposity
Noun
  • But maybe setting the bar high was a sign of respect for her audience, rather than condescension.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Yet everything remains the same for Delia whose romantic fantasies have given way to an embrace of her roles as dutiful wife and loving mother despite the sneering condescension and outright physical abuse at the hands of her strutting petty tyrant husband Ivano (Valerio Mastandrea).
    Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024
Definition of condescension
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