[f. EFFECTIVE a. + -NESS.] The quality of being effective, in various senses.
1607. Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr., I. i. 34. We agree in many vses with them [the Papists], but one of their vses (to wit) their [effectiuenes] we forbeare.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 583. Infinite Self-Activity, or Effectiveness.
1830. Arnold, Jrnl., in Life (1858), II. 336. The comforts and effectiveness of society.
1836. Random Recoll. Ho. Lords, x. 227. Effectiveness in debate.
1879. Rogers, in Cassell’s Techn. Educ., IV. 53/2. The labour is average in point of effectiveness.
