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OPEROSENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of requiring extended effort
Synonyms:
laboriousness; operoseness; toilsomeness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("operoseness" is a kind of...):
effortfulness (the quality of requiring deliberate effort)
Derivation:
operose (characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort)
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