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STRENUOUSNESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extreme effortfulness

Synonyms:

arduousness; strenuousness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("strenuousness" is a kind of...):

effortfulness (the quality of requiring deliberate effort)

Derivation:

strenuous (taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance)

strenuous (characterized by or performed with much energy or force)

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