Where does “persuasiveness” come from?

I need to flag a significant problem with this chain: it appears corrupted or malformed. The chain jumps from "Middle French persuasif" to "Old English -nes" (twice), then to Proto-Germanic roots, which doesn't represent a coherent etymological path for "persuasiveness." A legitimate chain for "persuasiveness" would trace: - English persuasiveness (noun + -ness suffix) - from persuasive (adjective) - from Middle French persuasif - from Latin persuasivus - from Latin persuadēre (to persuade) The chain you've provided conflates the suffix "-ness" with the root word's etymology and includes unexplained jumps backward in time without clear connection to "persuasive." **I cannot write an accurate one-sentence etymology from this chain because the chain itself doesn't support a coherent path to the headword.

persuasiveness (English): The capability of a person or argument to...