rigorousness

Definitions of rigorousness
  1. noun
    excessive sternness
    synonyms: austerity, hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness
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    type of:
    sternness, strictness
    uncompromising resolution
  2. noun
    something hard to endure
    synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity
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    types:
    sternness
    the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding
    type of:
    difficultness, difficulty
    the quality of being difficult
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