1 [mass noun] the action or process of persuading someone or of being persuaded to do or believe something:Monica needed plenty of persuasion before she actually left
2a belief or set of beliefs, especially religious or political ones:writers of all political persuasions
a group or sect holding a particular religious belief:the village had two chapels for those of the Primitive Methodist persuasion
humorous sort, kind, or nature:half a dozen gents of British persuasion
