Efficacy vs Success - What's the difference?
efficacy | success |
(uncountable) Ability to produce a desired amount of a desired effect.
(obsolete) Something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result.
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
The achievement of one's aim or goal.
(business) financial profitability.
One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.
The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.
As nouns the difference between efficacy and success
is that efficacy is ability to produce a desired amount of a desired effect while success is something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result.As a proper noun Success is
a town in Arkansas.efficacy
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* efficacityExternal links
* *success
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(wikipedia success)Alternative forms
* successe (archaic)Noun
- I suppose them as at the beginning of no meane endeavour, not a little alter'd and mov'd inwardly in their mindes: Some with doubt of what will be the successe , others with fear of what will be the censure; some with hope, others with confidence of what they have to speake.
- His third attempt to pass the entrance exam was a success .
- Don't let success go to your head.
- Scholastically, he was a success .
- The new range of toys has been a resounding success .
- She is country music's most recent success .