Other forms: persuasions
Persuasion is bringing somebody to your view by reasons. The art of persuasion, gentle persuasion, powers of persuasion.
Aristotle divided it into three: the speaker's character, the audience's feelings and the argument itself, and nobody has improved much on that. It also means a set of beliefs — people of every political persuasion. The Latin means to advise thoroughly.
1nounpersuasionBringing somebody to your view by reasons.
“After a lot of persuasion, my dad finally let me go to the concert.”
2nounsetA set of beliefs.
“She was a Catholic, but her husband was of the Protestant persuasion.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
persuasion is an influencing.
Latin persuasio comes from persuadere — per, thoroughly, plus suadere, to advise.
Proto-Indo-European
*sweh₂d-
Latin
persuāsiō
French
persuasion
English, today
persuasion
Built from
From French persuasion and its source, Latin persuāsiō, from persuadeo, from suadeo (“to advise, recommend”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA