decisiveness

/di'saisivnis/

Thân thiện

The committee admired her decisiveness in the emergency.

Definition

Noun: 1. The quality of being conclusive or final; the state of being settled definitively. This meaning focuses on the final, unchangeable nature of a decision or outcome. 2. The ability to make decisions quickly and effectively; firmness of character or purpose. This is the more common meaning, describing a personal trait of being resolute and determined in making choices.

Usage

• Meaning 1 (Finality): Used to describe the conclusive nature of an event, judgment, or outcome.
  • The decisiveness of the court's ruling left no room for further appeal.
  • There was a terrible decisiveness to the doctor's diagnosis.
• Meaning 2 (Resoluteness): Used to describe a person's character or the manner in which they act.
  • A good leader must possess clarity and decisiveness.
  • She acted with remarkable decisiveness under pressure.

Advanced Usage

• "to demonstrate/show decisiveness": to display the quality of being able to make firm decisions.
  • The manager showed great decisiveness in handling the crisis.
• "a lack of decisiveness": an absence of the ability to make firm decisions; indecisiveness.
  • The project suffered due to the team leader's lack of decisiveness.

Variants and Related Words

• Decisive (adj): Having the power to decide an issue; settling something conclusively. Also, characterized by firmness and determination.
  • a decisive victory; a decisive leader
• Decide (v): To make a choice or judgment about something.
• Decision (n): A conclusion or resolution reached after consideration.
• Indecisiveness (n): The opposite trait; the inability to make decisions quickly.

Synonyms

• For resoluteness: Determination, resolution, firmness, resolve, purposefulness.
• For finality: Conclusiveness, definitiveness, finality, irrevocability.

Antonyms

• Indecisiveness, hesitation, vacillation, uncertainty.

Học thuật

Noun

1. the quality of being final or definitely settled
   • the finality of death
2. the trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose
   • a man of unusual decisiveness

Từ đồng nghĩa

• finality
• conclusiveness
• decision