authoritativeness
Noun
Meaning
The quality of possessing authority.
The quality of trustworthiness and reliability.
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Examples
The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
For purposes of argument, I accept the authoritativeness of scripture, and will argue on those grounds.
The machine-learning algorithms do this by clustering documents to a given query into various “sentiments”, weighing these based on the perceived authoritativeness of a source.