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A very difficult year is ahead of us. We must continue our efforts with decisiveness, to stay in the euro, to make sure we do not waste the sacrifices and do not turn the crisis into an uncontrolled and disastrous bankruptcy.
Lucas Papademos

Meaning of "decisiveness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DECISIVENESS

decisiveness  [dɪˈsaɪsɪvnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DECISIVENESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Decisiveness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DECISIVENESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of decisiveness in the English dictionary

The definition of decisiveness in the dictionary is the quality of being decisive.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DECISIVENESS


adhesiveness
ədˈhiːsɪvnɪs
aggressiveness
əˈɡrɛsɪvnɪs
defensiveness
dɪˈfɛnsɪvnɪs
divisiveness
dɪˈvaɪsɪvnɪs
elusiveness
ɪˈluːsɪvnɪs
exclusiveness
ɪksˈklu:sɪvnɪs
expansiveness
ɪkˈspænsɪvnɪs
expressiveness
ɪkˈspresɪvnɪs
impulsiveness
ɪmˈpʌlsɪvnɪs
incisiveness
ɪnˈsaɪsɪvnɪs
inclusiveness
ɪnˈkluːsɪvnɪs
indecisiveness
ˌɪndɪˈsaɪsɪvnɪs
permissiveness
pəˈmɪsɪvnɪs
persuasiveness
pəˈsweɪsɪvnɪs
possessiveness
pəˈzɛsɪvnɪs
progressiveness
prəˈɡresɪvnɪs
responsiveness
rɪˈspɒnsɪvnɪs
suasiveness
ˈsweɪsɪvnɪs
submissiveness
səbˈmɪsɪvnɪs
unresponsiveness
ˌʌnrɪˈspɒnsɪvnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DECISIVENESS

decipherable
decipherer
decipherment
decision
decision support system
decision table
decision theory
decision time
decision tree
decision-maker
decision-making
decisional
decisive
decisively
decisory
decistere
decitizenise
decitizenize
decivilise
decivilize

WORDS THAT END LIKE DECISIVENESS

appropriateness
attentiveness
attractiveness
awareness
awesomeness
brand awareness
business
closeness
competitiveness
completeness
cost-effectiveness
cuteness
doneness
effectiveness
hoarseness
likeness
oneness
self-awareness
soreness
uniqueness
whiteness

Synonyms and antonyms of decisiveness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «decisiveness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DECISIVENESS

Find out the translation of decisiveness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of decisiveness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «decisiveness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

决断
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

decisión
570 millions of speakers

English

decisiveness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

निश्चितता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحسم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

решительность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

determinação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সিদ্ধান্তহীনতার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

caractère décisif
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ketegasan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Entschieden
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

決断力
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

결단력
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Decisiveness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

quyết đoán
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இறுதியான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निर्णायकता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

belirleyicilik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

risolutezza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

stanowczość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

рішучість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

hotărâre
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αποφασιστικότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

beslistheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

besluts
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

besluttsomhet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of decisiveness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DECISIVENESS»

The term «decisiveness» is normally little used and occupies the 111.757 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DECISIVENESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about decisiveness

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5 QUOTES WITH «DECISIVENESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word decisiveness.
1
Omar Bongo
The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.
2
Lee Iacocca
The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.
3
Lee Iacocca
Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.
4
Lucas Papademos
A very difficult year is ahead of us. We must continue our efforts with decisiveness, to stay in the euro, to make sure we do not waste the sacrifices and do not turn the crisis into an uncontrolled and disastrous bankruptcy.
5
Janet Suzman
Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DECISIVENESS»

Discover the use of decisiveness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to decisiveness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Dynamics of Leadership in Public Service: Theory and Practice
Decisiveness is important in crises (a critical time for leaders) because it gives followers a sense of confidence that matters are being taken care of and it tends to lend substantial credibility to the leader (Mulder and Stemerding 1963; Mulder et ...
Montgomery Van Wart, 2005
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The essence of leadership: strategy, innovation, and ...
Robert maintains that management must master a set of mental skills, which Robert has termed "critical thinking," and develop a "coherent strategy" that others in the organization will accept.
Michel Robert, 1991
3
Leadership in Public Organizations: An Introduction
deCisiVeness Decisiveness is the ability to act relatively quickly depending on circumstances without excessively damaging decision quality. For leaders, decisiveness is just one aspect of a larger concept: degree of follower participation in ...
Montgomery Van Wart, 2012
4
The Decisiveness of U.S. Air Power
Air power's use in recent conflicts has shown a clear evolution in its lethality, reliability, utility, and most importantly, its decisiveness.
Cory Thorn, 2007
5
Law and Evil: Philosophy, Politics, Psychoanalysis
Nancy points out the passive moment in decision: the act of decision is the action of being-thrown-into-the-world.74 But with respect to our question, we can examine it in the light of Heidegger's notion of decisiveness or resoluteness,75 ...
Ari Hirvonen, Janne Porttikivi, 2009
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Minority Government and Majority Rule
Finally, electoral decisiveness requires that governments be formed in close proximity to general elections. The proximity score for each political system is simply the proportion of government formations that have taken place immediately ...
Kaare Strom, 1990
7
Collective Preference and Choice
is less of a problem than a decisiveness of 55%. A less obvious characteristic of majority decisiveness is the degree of coordinated strategic voting exercised by the members of the majority coalition. In the nonstrategic voting theory, voters are  ...
Shmuel Nitzan, 2010
8
Scalable Uncertainty Management: First International ...
4.3 Answer Decisiveness Figure 6(b) shows the answer decisiveness for our data sets. This experiment focuses on the tree representation only, because the answers produced by a query is independent of the representation, hence the ...
Henri Prade, V.S. Subrahmanian, 2007
9
On Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
now he is decisive over (x,z) too: his original semi-decisiveness has spread to decisiveness over a new pair. So we have our first conclusion: 1. If Alf is semi- decisive over (x,y), he is decisive over (x,z). And we can see that his decisiveness will ...
Gerald Gaus, 2007
10
Social Choice (Routledge Revivals)
Decisiveness = 0.437. 2) Pa must be in any giverning coalition. Decisiveness = 0.481 3) Pa and Pc must be in any governing coalition. Decisiveness = 0.625. Clearly enough, these restrictions produce an upward revision in our estimate of  ...
Bernhardt Liebermann, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DECISIVENESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term decisiveness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Barclays CEO Antony Jenkins ousted from the bank
On Wednesday he said the strategy has been "cumbersome" and lacked decisiveness. The departure of Mr. Jenkins adds to a long list of bank ... «MarketWatch, Jul 15»
2
James Kirkup: This Budget introduces Prime Minister Osborne
It didn't matter, because voters rated Mr Cameron more highly on other things, like competence, strength and decisiveness. They didn't have to ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
3
Horncastle: Juve can win without Tevez, Pirlo
... three, including a wonderful Platini-esque effort against Roma in March -- a reminder of how wide-ranging his decisiveness was to Juventus. «ESPN FC, Jul 15»
4
Does the Philippines' South China Sea Case Against China Really …
International discourse on the legality of South China Sea claims will also continue to lack the clarity and decisiveness of such a verdict. «The Diplomat, Jul 15»
5
Miami Heat version 3.0 finding early success in Summer League
... he has accomplished the mission by making a cheat sheet for the players where they handle the rock with confidence and with decisiveness. «Hot Hot Hoops, Jul 15»
6
The Hill Formula: How 500 Millionaires Became Obscenely Rich
A key trait Hill recognised in all of the individuals he studied who acquired great wealth was decisiveness. Those who settle on decisions ... «Lifehacker Australia, Jul 15»
7
Enter: Chief Justice Shrestha
... established much precedence in cases involving human rights and women's issues, and has a reputation for competence and decisiveness. «Nepali times, Jul 15»
8
Doyle McManus: Through fiction, veterans present clearer truths of …
I was struck by a kind of lethargy, in awe of the decisiveness of every single attenuated moment." Fight for each other. There's not much heroism ... «Fayetteville Observer, Jul 15»
9
Houston's Monthly Metrics: July 2015
... for the first time in months, that the decisiveness and deep cuts that quickly permeated the oil and gas industry earlier this year could be over. «Construction Citizen, Jul 15»
10
12 Times Your Dad Should've Disowned You For Your Dumb Dating …
Decisiveness is one of the most attractive aspects of a man's personality. It proves you can look after a lady, and ultimately, her family. «Elite Daily, Jul 15»

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