RIGOROUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rigorousness mean? 

• RIGOROUSNESS (noun)
  The noun RIGOROUSNESS has 2 senses:

1. something hard to endure

2. excessive sternness

  Familiarity information: RIGOROUSNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIGOROUSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something hard to endure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

asperity; grimness; hardship; rigor; rigorousness; rigour; rigourousness; severeness; severity

Context example:

the asperity of northern winters

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

difficultness; difficulty (the quality of being difficult)

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

sternness (the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Excessive sternness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

hardness; harshness; inclemency; rigor; rigorousness; rigour; rigourousness; severeness; severity; stiffness

Context example:

the rigors of boot camp

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

sternness; strictness (uncompromising resolution)

Derivation:

rigorous (demanding strict attention to rules and procedures)

rigorous (rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard)