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Noun: rigorousness
  1. Something hard to endure
    - asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor [US], rigour [Brit, Cdn], severity, severeness, rigourousness [Brit, non-standard]
     
  2. Excessive sternness
    - severity, severeness, harshness, rigor [US], rigour [Brit, Cdn], rigourousness [Brit, non-standard], inclemency, hardness, stiffness

Derived forms: rigorousnesses

See also: rigorous

Type of: difficultness, difficulty, sternness, strictness