Definition of efficacy

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Efficacy (n.) Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer..

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Virtuality :: Virtuality (n.) Potentiality; efficacy; potential existence.
Vigor :: Vigor (n.) Strength; efficacy; potency.
Virtueless :: Virtueless (a.) Destitute of virtue; without efficacy or operating qualities; powerless.
Virtuate :: Virtuate (v. t.) To make efficacious; to give virtue of efficacy.
Quacksalver :: Quacksalver (n.) One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank..
Coefficacy :: Coefficacy (n.) Joint efficacy.
Ineffectualness :: Ineffectualness (n.) Want of effect, or of power to produce it; inefficacy..
Null :: Null (a.) Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless.
Prevalent :: Prevalent (a.) Gaining advantage or superiority; having superior force, influence, or efficacy; prevailing; predominant; successful; victorious..
Available :: Available (a.) Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy, for the object; effectual; valid; as, an available plea..
Inefficaciously :: Inefficaciously (adv.) without efficacy or effect.
Availableness :: Availableness (n.) Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title..
Strong :: Strong (superl.) Having virtues of great efficacy; or, having a particular quality in a great degree; as, a strong powder or tincture; a strong decoction; strong tea or coffee..
Unsacrament :: Unsacrament (v. t.) To deprive of sacramental character or efficacy; as, to unsacrament the rite of baptism..
Efficacity :: Efficacity (n.) Efficacy.
Insignificance :: Insignificance (n.) Want of force or effect; unimportance; pettiness; inefficacy; as, the insignificance of human art..
Invalid :: Invalid (a.) Having no force, effect, or efficacy; void; null; as, an invalid contract or agreement..
Virtual :: Virtual (a.) Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the agency of the material or sensible part; potential; energizing.
Fleabane :: Fleabane (n.) One of various plants, supposed to have efficacy in driving away fleas. They belong, for the most part, to the genera Conyza, Erigeron, and Pulicaria..
Force :: Force (n.) Validity; efficacy.
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