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rigourousness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rigourousness has 2 senses
- rigourousness(n = noun.attribute) asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, severeness, severity - something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" is a kind of difficultness, difficulty
- rigourousness(n = noun.attribute) hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, severeness, severity, stiffness - excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp" is a kind of sternness, strictness
has particulars: sternness
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