| influence | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. influence | a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc.; "used her parents' influence to get the job" |
| ~ power, powerfulness | possession of controlling influence.; "the deterrent power of nuclear weapons"; "the power of his love saved her"; "his powerfulness was concealed by a gentle facade" |
| ~ dead hand of the past, dead hand, mortmain | the oppressive influence of past events or decisions. |
| ~ force | a powerful effect or influence.; "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them" |
| ~ grasp, grip | an intellectual hold or understanding.; "a good grip on French history"; "they kept a firm grip on the two top priorities"; "he was in the grip of a powerful emotion"; "a terrible power had her in its grasp" |
| n. (act) | 2. influence | causing something without any direct or apparent effort. |
| ~ causation, causing | the act of causing something to happen. |
| ~ cross-pollination | stimulating influence among diverse elements.; "the cross-pollination of the arts" |
| ~ exposure | the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience.; "she denounced the exposure of children to pornography" |
| ~ impingement, encroachment, impact | influencing strongly.; "they resented the impingement of American values on European culture" |
| ~ manipulation, use | exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage.; "his manipulation of his friends was scandalous" |
| ~ hypnotism, mesmerism, suggestion | the act of inducing hypnosis. |
| ~ enticement, temptation | the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire.; "his enticements were shameless" |
| n. (cognition) | 3. influence | a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do.; "her wishes had a great influence on his thinking" |
| ~ causal factor, determinant, determining factor, determinative, determiner | a determining or causal element or factor.; "education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life" |
| ~ imponderable | a factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed.; "human behavior depends on many imponderables" |
| ~ imprint | a distinctive influence.; "English stills bears the imprint of the Norman invasion" |
| ~ morale builder | something or someone who influences by building or strengthening morale. |
| ~ canker, pestilence | a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of.; "racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation"; "according to him, I was the canker in their midst" |
| ~ support | something providing immaterial assistance to a person or cause or interest.; "the policy found little public support"; "his faith was all the support he needed"; "the team enjoyed the support of their fans" |
| ~ enticement, temptation | something that seduces or has the quality to seduce. |
| n. (phenomenon) | 4. influence | the effect of one thing (or person) on another.; "the influence of mechanical action" |
| ~ consequence, effect, result, upshot, outcome, event, issue | a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon.; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event" |
| ~ perturbation | (physics) a secondary influence on a system that causes it to deviate slightly. |
| ~ purchase | a means of exerting influence or gaining advantage.; "he could get no purchase on the situation" |
| ~ wind | a tendency or force that influences events.; "the winds of change" |
| n. (person) | 5. influence | one having power to influence another.; "she was the most important influence in my life"; "he was a bad influence on the children" |
| ~ power, force | one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority.; "the mysterious presence of an evil power"; "may the force be with you"; "the forces of evil" |
| v. (social) | 6. act upon, influence, work | have and exert influence or effect.; "The artist's work influenced the young painter"; "She worked on her friends to support the political candidate" |
| ~ affect, bear upon, bear on, impact, touch on, touch | have an effect upon.; "Will the new rules affect me?" |
| ~ prejudice, prepossess | influence (somebody's) opinion in advance. |
| ~ imprint, form | establish or impress firmly in the mind.; "We imprint our ideas onto our children" |
| ~ militate | have force or influence; bring about an effect or change.; "Politeness militated against this opinion being expressed" |
| ~ manipulate, pull strings, pull wires | influence or control shrewdly or deviously.; "He manipulated public opinion in his favor" |
| ~ colour, color | modify or bias.; "His political ideas color his lectures" |
| ~ swing over, swing | influence decisively.; "This action swung many votes over to his side" |
| ~ blackjack, blackmail, pressure | exert pressure on someone through threats. |
| ~ persuade, sway, carry | win approval or support for.; "Carry all before one"; "His speech did not sway the voters" |
| ~ get at | influence by corruption. |
| ~ fix | influence an event or its outcome by illegal means.; "fix a race" |
| ~ dominate | be in control.; "Her husband completely dominates her" |
| v. (cognition) | 7. determine, influence, mold, regulate, shape | shape or influence; give direction to.; "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion" |
| ~ dispose, incline | make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief.; "Their language inclines us to believe them" |
| ~ disincline, indispose | make unwilling. |
| ~ miscreate | shape or form or make badly.; "Our miscreated fantasies" |
| ~ carry weight | have influence to a specified degree.; "Her opinion carries a lot of weight" |
| ~ decide | influence or determine.; "The vote in New Hampshire often decides the outcome of the Presidential election" |
| ~ reshape | shape anew or differently.; "The new foreign minister reshaped the foreign policy of his country" |
| ~ time | set the speed, duration, or execution of.; "we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely" |
| ~ index | adjust through indexation.; "The government indexes wages and prices" |
| ~ pace | regulate or set the pace of.; "Pace your efforts" |
| ~ predetermine | determine beforehand. |
| ~ cause, do, make | give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally.; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident" |
| v. (communication) | 8. charm, influence, tempt | induce into action by using one's charm.; "She charmed him into giving her all his money" |
| ~ persuade | cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm.; "You can't persuade me to buy this ugly vase!" |
| ~ magnetise, mesmerise, mesmerize, bewitch, magnetize, spellbind | attract strongly, as if with a magnet.; "She magnetized the audience with her tricks" |
| might | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. might, mightiness, power | physical strength. |
| ~ strength | the property of being physically or mentally strong.; "fatigue sapped his strength" |
| potency | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. authorisation, authority, authorization, dominance, potency, say-so | the power or right to give orders or make decisions.; "he has the authority to issue warrants"; "deputies are given authorization to make arrests"; "a place of potency in the state" |
| ~ power of appointment | authority given (in a will or deed) by a donor to a donee to appoint the beneficiaries of the donor's property. |
| ~ control | power to direct or determine.; "under control" |
| ~ carte blanche | complete freedom or authority to act. |
| ~ command | the power or authority to command.; "an admiral in command" |
| ~ imperium | supreme authority; absolute dominion. |
| ~ lordship | the authority of a lord. |
| ~ muscle | authority or power or force (especially when used in a coercive way).; "the senators used their muscle to get the party leader to resign" |
| ~ sovereignty | the authority of a state to govern another state. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. effectiveness, potency, strength | capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects.; "the toxin's potency"; "the strength of the drinks" |
| ~ power, powerfulness | possession of controlling influence.; "the deterrent power of nuclear weapons"; "the power of his love saved her"; "his powerfulness was concealed by a gentle facade" |
| n. (state) | 3. potency, potential, potentiality | the inherent capacity for coming into being. |
| ~ possibleness, possibility | capability of existing or happening or being true.; "there is a possibility that his sense of smell has been impaired" |
| ~ latency | the state of being not yet evident or active. |
| ~ prospect, chance | the possibility of future success.; "his prospects as a writer are excellent" |
| n. (state) | 4. potence, potency | the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse. |
| ~ physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state | the condition or state of the body or bodily functions. |
| power | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. power, powerfulness | possession of controlling influence.; "the deterrent power of nuclear weapons"; "the power of his love saved her"; "his powerfulness was concealed by a gentle facade" |
| ~ quality | an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone.; "the quality of mercy is not strained" |
| ~ effectiveness, potency, strength | capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects.; "the toxin's potency"; "the strength of the drinks" |
| ~ valence, valency | (chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent). |
| ~ valence, valency | (biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate. |
| ~ preponderance | superiority in power or influence.; "the preponderance of good over evil"; "the preponderance of wealth and power" |
| ~ puissance | power to influence or coerce.; "the puissance of the labor vote" |
| ~ persuasiveness, strength | the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty.; "the strength of his argument settled the matter" |
| ~ irresistibility, irresistibleness | the quality of being overpowering and impossible to resist. |
| ~ interestingness, interest | the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.).; "they said nothing of great interest"; "primary colors can add interest to a room" |
| ~ chokehold, stranglehold, throttlehold | complete power over a person or situation.; "corporations have a stranglehold on the media"; "the president applied a chokehold to labor disputes that inconvenienced the public" |
| ~ sway | controlling influence. |
| ~ influence | a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc.; "used her parents' influence to get the job" |
| ~ repellant, repellent | the power to repel.; "she knew many repellents to his advances" |
| ~ control | power to direct or determine.; "under control" |
| ~ jurisdiction, legal power | (law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law.; "courts having jurisdiction in this district" |
| ~ disposal | the power to use something or someone.; "used all the resources at his disposal" |
| ~ free will, discretion | the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies. |
| ~ veto | the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature). |
| ~ effectiveness, effectivity, effectuality, effectualness | power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect. |
| n. (phenomenon) | 2. power | (physics) the rate of doing work; measured in watts (= joules/second). |
| ~ natural philosophy, physics | the science of matter and energy and their interactions.; "his favorite subject was physics" |
| ~ physical phenomenon | a natural phenomenon involving the physical properties of matter and energy. |
| ~ electric power, electrical power, wattage | the product of voltage and current. |
| ~ waterpower | the power to do work that is latent in a head of water. |
| n. (cognition) | 3. ability, power | possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done.; "danger heightened his powers of discrimination" |
| ~ cognition, knowledge, noesis | the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning. |
| ~ know-how | the (technical) knowledge and skill required to do something. |
| ~ leadership | the ability to lead.; "he believed that leadership can be taught" |
| ~ intelligence | the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience. |
| ~ aptitude | inherent ability. |
| ~ bilingualism | the ability to speak two languages colloquially. |
| ~ mental ability, capacity | the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior. |
| ~ creative thinking, creativeness, creativity | the ability to create. |
| ~ originality | the ability to think and act independently. |
| ~ science, skill | ability to produce solutions in some problem domain.; "the skill of a well-trained boxer"; "the sweet science of pugilism" |
| ~ acquirement, skill, accomplishment, attainment, acquisition | an ability that has been acquired by training. |
| ~ hand | ability.; "he wanted to try his hand at singing" |
| ~ superior skill | more than ordinary ability. |
| ~ faculty, mental faculty, module | one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind. |
| n. (state) | 4. office, power | (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power.; "being in office already gives a candidate a great advantage"; "during his first year in office"; "during his first year in power"; "the power of the president" |
| ~ state | the way something is with respect to its main attributes.; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state" |
| ~ governing, government activity, governance, government, administration | the act of governing; exercising authority.; "regulations for the governing of state prisons"; "he had considerable experience of government" |
| ~ executive clemency | the power (usually of a president or governor) to pardon or commute the sentence of someone convicted in that jurisdiction. |
| ~ war power | an extraordinary power exercised (usually by the executive branch) in the prosecution of a war and involving an extension of the powers that the government normally has in peacetime. |
| n. (person) | 5. force, power | one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority.; "the mysterious presence of an evil power"; "may the force be with you"; "the forces of evil" |
| ~ causal agency, causal agent, cause | any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results. |
| ~ juggernaut, steamroller | a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way. |
| ~ influence | one having power to influence another.; "she was the most important influence in my life"; "he was a bad influence on the children" |
| ~ moloch | a tyrannical power to be propitiated by human subservience or sacrifice.; "the great Moloch of war"; "duty has become the Moloch of modern life" |
| n. (communication) | 6. exponent, index, power | a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself. |
| ~ degree | the highest power of a term or variable. |
| ~ mathematical notation | a notation used by mathematicians. |
| ~ logarithm, log | the exponent required to produce a given number. |
| n. (group) | 7. great power, major power, power, superpower, world power | a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world. |
| ~ body politic, country, nation, res publica, commonwealth, state, land | a politically organized body of people under a single government.; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land" |
| ~ hegemon | a leading or paramount power. |
| n. (person) | 8. baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon | a very wealthy or powerful businessman.; "an oil baron" |
| ~ businessman, man of affairs | a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive). |
| ~ oil tycoon | a powerful person in the oil business. |
| v. (consumption) | 9. power | supply the force or power for the functioning of.; "The gasoline powers the engines" |
| ~ drive | cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling.; "The amplifier drives the tube"; "steam drives the engines"; "this device drives the disks for the computer" |
| ~ cater, ply, provide, supply | give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance.; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests" |
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