influentialness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

influential +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

influentialness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being influential; influence.
    • 1859, William Buell Sprague, Annals of the American Pulpit: Episcopalian. 1859, page 768:
      He never had been young. He had done more than man's work, when he was a boy. He had always lain under a man's responsibilities. He had lived his life out at thirty-nine. He had attained, in his short life, a most extensive influentialness.