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

At first the other boys refused to believe this announcement, but they were quickly assured of its authoritativeness, and when its full significance dawned upon them they stared at one another blankly.

From Harry Watson's High School Days The Rivals of Rivertown by Webster, Frank V.