Effectively vs Effectiveness - What's the difference?
effectively | effectiveness |
In an efficient or effective manner; with powerful effect.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=December 19
, author=Kerry Brown
, title=Kim Jong-il obituary
, work=The Guardian
Essentially, in effect, for all practical purposes.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title=Opening Doors
, volume=100, issue=2, page=112-3
, magazine=
The property of being effective, of achieving results.
The capacity or potential for achieving results.
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The degree to which something achieves results.
* 2013 , Phil McNulty, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23830980]", BBC Sport , 1 September 2013:
As an adverb effectively
is in an efficient or effective manner; with powerful effect.As a noun effectiveness is
the property of being effective, of achieving results.effectively
English
Adverb
(en adverb)citation, page= , passage=A state ideology, mixing nationalism, and basic Marxist economics, going under the name "Juche", was constructed, and Kim Il-sung effectively silenced, disposed of and cleared away any opposition, isolating the country and exercising an iron grip on the military, the state media and the government and party organs.}}
citation, passage=A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.}}
effectiveness
English
(wikipedia effectiveness)Noun
(-)- The effectiveness of the drug was well established.
- He questioned the effectiveness of the treatment.
- United were having more possession but a sign of the effectiveness of Liverpool's defence was that it took the visitors 76 minutes to force Mignolet into serious action, when he dived to punch away a shot from substitute Nani.
