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Impressive vs Cogent - What's the difference?

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Impressive is a related term of cogent.


As adjectives the difference between impressive and cogent

is that impressive is making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene while cogent is reasonable and convincing; based on evidence.

impressive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene.
  • Capable of being impressed.
  • appealing

    • Antonyms

    * unimpressive

    Derived terms

    * impressiveness

    Related terms

    * impression

    Anagrams

    * permissive

    cogent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Reasonable and convincing; based on evidence.
  • Appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning.
  • Forcefully persuasive.
    • She presented a cogent argument, convincing her audience of the truth of her proposition.

    Derived terms

    * cogency