TOILSOMENESS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of requiring extended effort

Synonyms:

laboriousness; operoseness; toilsomeness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

effortfulness (the quality of requiring deliberate effort)

Derivation:

toilsome (characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort)

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