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ARDUOUSNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extreme effortfulness
Synonyms:
arduousness; strenuousness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("arduousness" is a kind of...):
effortfulness (the quality of requiring deliberate effort)
Derivation:
arduous (difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill)
arduous (characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort)
arduous (taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance)
