Usually means: Influencing others through communication techniques.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. persuasion: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. persuasion, persuasion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. persuasion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. persuasion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. persuasion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Persuasion, persuasion: Wordnik
  7. persuasion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. persuasion: Wiktionary
  9. persuasion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. persuasion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. persuasion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. persuasion: Dictionary.com
  13. persuasion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. persuasion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Persuasion (Adam Ant album), Persuasion (comics), Persuasion (disambiguation), Persuasion (novel), Persuasion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Persuasion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. persuasion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. persuasion: Rhymezone
  19. Persuasion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. persuasion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. persuasion: Free Dictionary
  22. persuasion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. persuasion: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. persuasion: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Persuasion: CCI Computer
  2. persuasion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Conflict Resolution Glossary (No longer online)
  2. persuasion: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Persuasion (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. Persuasion: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See persuasions as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of persuading, or trying to do so; the addressing of arguments to someone with the intention of changing their mind or convincing them of a certain point of view, course of action etc.
noun:  An argument or other statement intended to influence one's opinions or beliefs; a way of persuading someone.
noun:  A strongly held conviction, opinion or belief.
noun:  One's ability or power to influence someone's opinions or feelings; persuasiveness.
noun:  A specified religious adherence, a creed; any school of thought or ideology.
noun:  (by extension, often humorous) Another personal, animal or inanimate trait that is not (very) liable to be changed by persuasion, such as sex, gender, ethnicity, origin, profession or nature.

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