ARDUOUSNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Extreme effortfulness

Synonyms:

arduousness; strenuousness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

effortfulness (the quality of requiring deliberate effort)

Derivation:

arduous (difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill)

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

arduous (taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance)