Synonyms:
opinion, sentiment, persuasion, view, thought
Meaning: a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty; "my opinion differs from yours"; "I am not of your persuasion"; "what are your thoughts on Haiti?"
Synonyms:
persuasion, suasion
Meaning: the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action
Usage examples
'Since you won't yield to persuasion, we'll try what force can do.
"Well, then, to be plain with you, Niccolo mio, I want it myself," said Tito, knowing it was useless to try persuasion.
It was easy then to know how to reach each individual by literature, by persuasion or perhaps by some more subtle argument.
Well, I have just now a sort of strange persuasion upon me, that I ought to try to get way, and leave the issue to Providence.
It did not take much persuasion on the part of Margaret to convince Mrs. Merideth that a winter abroad would be delightful--just they two together.
Believe what I say, and let us live together as comfortably as we can." All my persuasion was in vain; they were resolved to marry, and soon accomplished their wishes.
It has been remarked that in times of great religious fervor men sometimes change their religious opinions; whereas in times of general scepticism everyone clings to his own persuasion.
In this pope, says he, there was a singular capacity and judgement: admirable prudence; a wonderful talent of persuasion; and in all momentous enterprizes a diligence and dexterity incredible.
Of the five thousand, he roughly calculated there would be two thousand voters that no kind of persuasion could turn from his party and two thousand that could not be changed from the opposition.
But even education works by conviction and persuasion as well as by compulsion, and it is by the former only that, when the period of education is past, the self-regarding virtues should be inculcated.