Vigour vs Effectiveness - What's the difference?
vigour | effectiveness | Related terms |
Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
* (rfdate) :
(biology) Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action.
Strength; efficacy; potency.
* 1667 , :
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:
Vigour is a related term of effectiveness.
As nouns the difference between vigour and effectiveness
is that vigour is active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy while effectiveness is the property of being effective, of achieving results.vigour
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Alternative forms
* vigor (US) * vygour (obsolete)Noun
- The vigour of this arm was never vain.
- A plant grows with vigour.
- But in the fruithful earth His beams, unactive else, their vigour find.
Usage notes
Vigour and its derivatives commonly imply active strength, or the power of action and exertion, in distinction from passive strength, or strength to endure.Derived terms
* envigorate * vigorous * hybrid vigor/hybrid vigoureffectiveness
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(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.