authoritativeness

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The blue tick was once seen as a marker of a person's authoritativeness on the site, as only a few people could become verified, such as celebrities, government workers and journalists.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2024

“I believe that Mr. Danchenko identified me as Sub-Source 3 to create more authoritativeness for his work.”

From Washington Times • Nov. 11, 2021

Google’s text snippets are arguably the platform’s worst feature, granting a false sense of authoritativeness to inaccurate or offensive information or even summarizing an accurate answer in a dangerously wrong way.

From The Verge • Nov. 9, 2021

Fred Sr. saw these characteristics as manly, but, really, these are funhouse-mirror reflections of those classic masculine ideals: Stoicism becomes a lack of empathy, strength becomes cruelty, authoritativeness become authoritarianism.

From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2020

They owed their influence to a certain authoritativeness in their feeling that Nature, if you will only trust her sufficiently, is absolutely good.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William