[f. as prec. + -NESS.] Convincing quality or character.
1647. Power of Keys, iv. 45. The force, or convincingnesse of this interpretation.
1880. Fortn. Rev., April, 556. The directness and convincingness of his style.
1881. Saintsbury, Dryden, iv. 83. Buckingham proved, with tolerable convincingness, how small had been his own share in the Rehearsal.
