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RIGOUROUSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rigourousness mean?
• RIGOUROUSNESS (noun)
The noun RIGOUROUSNESS has 2 senses:
1. something hard to endure
2. excessive sternness
Familiarity information: RIGOUROUSNESS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("rigourousness" is a kind of...):
difficultness; difficulty (the quality of being difficult)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rigourousness"):
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 ("rigourousness" is a kind of...):
sternness; strictness (uncompromising resolution)
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