What does effectiveness mean?

Definitions for effectiveness
ef·fec·tive·ness

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. effectiveness, effectivity, effectualness, effectualitynoun

    power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect

  2. potency, effectiveness, strengthnoun

    capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects

    "the toxin's potency"; "the strength of the drinks"

Wiktionary

  1. effectivenessnoun

    The property of being effective

  2. effectivenessnoun

    The ability to be effective.

  3. effectivenessnoun

    The degree to which something is effective.

    He questioned the effectiveness of the treatment.

Wikipedia

  1. Effectiveness

    Effectiveness is the capability of producing a desired result or the ability to produce desired output. When something is deemed effective, it means it has an intended or expected outcome, or produces a deep, vivid impression.

ChatGPT

  1. effectiveness

    Effectiveness refers to the degree to which something is successful in producing a desired or intended result. It evaluates whether a task or activity is performed with minimum waste of resources and maximum outcome, and implies the achievement of specific goals or objectives.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Effectivenessnoun

    the quality of being effective

Editors Contribution

  1. effectiveness

    The quality of being effective.

    The auditor verified the effectiveness of the processes and procedures within the system.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 14, 2020  

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'effectiveness' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4295

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'effectiveness' in Nouns Frequency: #1792

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of effectiveness in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of effectiveness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of effectiveness in a Sentence

  1. Dean Blumberg:

    Unfortunately, there's much misinformation about vaccine safety and effectiveness, let me be clear: There is no scientific controversy about vaccine safety and vaccine effectiveness. ... This is not open to dispute among mainstream doctors and scientists.

  2. Peter Marks:

    Remember that it is 30 % or 40 % of the population will not take this vaccine, even if the vaccine effectiveness is 70 or 80 %. We will not be in a position to have herd immunity.

  3. John Curtis:

    Those of you who know me well know that I spent a long time trying to decide if this was the right thing to do, i had to know in my heart that this was the right thing for me, for my family and for the district. I ’m here to tell you that I bring experience, engagement and effectiveness that nobody else can.

  4. Ankur Pandya:

    We found that 7.5 percent number is actually pretty good when it comes to value and you can actually push it a little further on cost effectiveness grounds.

  5. Sara Oliver:

    The VE( vaccine effectiveness) is lower for the Janssen vaccine compared to mRNA vaccines.

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