EFFORTFULNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does effortfulness mean? 

• EFFORTFULNESS (noun)
  The noun EFFORTFULNESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of requiring deliberate effort

  Familiarity information: EFFORTFULNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EFFORTFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of requiring deliberate effort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

difficultness; difficulty (the quality of being difficult)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "effortfulness"):

arduousness; strenuousness (extreme effortfulness)

laboriousness; operoseness; toilsomeness (the quality of requiring extended effort)

Antonym:

effortlessness (the quality of requiring little effort)

Derivation:

effortful (requiring great physical effort)