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Lasting vs Impactful - What's the difference?

lasting | impactful |

As adjectives the difference between lasting and impactful

is that lasting is persisting for an extended period of time while impactful is having impact.

As a verb lasting

is .

As a noun lasting

is continuance; endurance.

lasting

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Persisting for an extended period of time.
    • After World War One it was hoped that a lasting peace had been achieved. It hadn't.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 29 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992) citation , page= , passage=Though they obviously realized that these episodes were part of something wonderful and important and lasting , the writers and producers couldn’t have imagined that 20 years later “Treehouse Of Horror” wouldn’t just survive; it’d thrive as one of the most talked-about and watched episodes of every season of The Simpsons.}}

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • continuance; endurance
    • (John Locke)
  • A durable woollen material formerly used for women's shoes; everlasting.
  • The act or process of shaping on a last.

    • Anagrams

    * * *

    impactful

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having impact.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1950 , year_published=2008 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author= , title=Movies: A Psychological Study , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Free Press , isbn= , page=22 , passage=We might suppose that some of the most impactful heroines of current films would combine these two functions: that of the good-bad girl ... }}
  • * 1969 , W. James Popham, "Curriculum Materials," Review of Educational Research , vol. 39, no. 3, p. 321:
    • It is strongly recommended that in the future such investigations not be reported in the literature unless they are designed to test the effects of some hopefully impactful treatment variation.
  • * 1982 , S. E. Taylor and S. C. Thompson, "Stalking the Elusive 'Vividness' Effect," Psychological Bulletin , vol. 89, no. 2, p. 155:
    • Everyone knows that vividly presented information is impactful and persuasive.
  • * 2001 , A. Mukherjee and W. D. Hoyer, "The Effect of Novel Attributes on Product Evaluation," The Journal of Consumer Research , vol. 28, no. 3, p. 463:
    • A dominant finding in psychology and consumer behavior has been that negative information is more impactful than positive information.
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    • Usage notes

    * Proscribed by some authorities, who recommend “influential” or “effective” instead. Alternatively, one may rephrase to “have an impact” or “have a strong impact”. However, many usages can be found, particularly in business and education as well as in journalism and academic writing. * Usage is more common in the US.

    Synonyms

    * effectual, impactive

    Derived terms

    * impactfully * impactfulness

    References

    * * Historical usage frequency at Google books