Noun

• S: (n) effectiveness, effectivity, effectualness, effectuality (power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect)
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• S: (n) incisiveness, trenchancy (keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect)
• S: (n) efficacy, efficaciousness (capacity or power to produce a desired effect) "concern about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine"
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• S: (adj) efficacious (marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect) "written propaganda is less efficacious than the habits and prejudices...of the readers"-Aldous Huxley; "the medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough"
• S: (adj) inefficacious (lacking the power to produce a desired effect) "laws that are inefficacious in stopping crime"
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