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STRENUOUSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does strenuousness mean?
• STRENUOUSNESS (noun)
The noun STRENUOUSNESS has 1 sense:
1. extreme effortfulness
Familiarity information: STRENUOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extreme effortfulness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
arduousness; strenuousness
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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