different between persuade vs suasion

English

Alternative forms

• perswade (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin persu?de? (“I persuade”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??swe?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p??swe?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d
• Hyphenation: per?suade

Verb

persuade (third-person singular simple present persuades, present participle persuading, simple past and past participle persuaded)

1. (transitive) To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence. [from 15th c.]

   Synonym: convince

   Antonyms: deter, dissuade

   • The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To convince of by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe (something). [15th–18th c.]
3. (transitive, now rare, regional) To urge, plead; to try to convince (someone to do something). [from 16th c.]
   • 1791, Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story, Oxford 2009, p. 119:

     She did not go into the coffee-room, though repeatedly persuaded by Miss Woodley, but waited at the door till her carriage drew up.

   • 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska 1987, p. 34:

     He persuaded me to go home, but I refused.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• “persuade” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.s?ad/

Verb

persuade

1. inflection of persuader:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Verb

persuade

1. third-person singular indicative present of persuadere

Latin

Verb

persu?d?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of persu?de?

Portuguese

Verb

persuade

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of persuadir
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of persuadir

Spanish

Verb

persuade

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of persuadir.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of persuadir.

English

Etymology

14th century. From Middle English suasion, from Latin su?si? (“counselling, advice, persuasion”), from Latin su?de? (“I urge, exhort; I suade, persuade”), from Proto-Italic *sw?d?? (“to recommend; to advise”), from Proto-Indo-European *swoh?déye-, from *sweh?d- (“sweet”). Cognate with English suave (“charming, confident and elegant”), Italian suadere (“to persuade”) and Spanish suadir (“to persuade”).

Pronunciation

Noun

suasion (countable and uncountable, plural suasions)

1. The act of urging or influencing; persuasion.
   • 1977, Stephen R. Donaldson, The Illearth War, page 75:

     The high intricate ways of the Keep had a strange power of suasion, an ability to carry conviction.

   • 1982, Jacob Kipp, "Review of The Royal Navy and the Siege of Bilbao by James Cable," Military Affairs, vol. 46, no. 4, page 217:

     James Cable, the author of Gunboat Diplomacy (Chatto & Windus, 1971), has created an excellent case study of naval presence and suasion during the era of appeasement.

Usage notes

• "Persuasion" is much more commonly used than "suasion".
• "Persuasion" ordinarily refers to exhortation by means of argumentation or reasoned discourse. "Suasion" may have this sense, but it is not uncommon for "suasion" to refer to the exercise of influence by other means.

Synonyms

• suasiveness

Derived terms

• moral suasion
• suasive
• suasively

Related terms

• persuade
• dissuade

References

• "suasion" at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Siouans, sanious