Success vs Effectiveness - What's the difference?
success | effectiveness |
(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.
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 a proper noun success
is a town in arkansas.As a noun effectiveness is
the property of being effective, of achieving results.success
English
(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 .
Antonyms
* failureDerived terms
* nothing succeeds like success * successful * successfullyExternal links
* *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.