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BURDENSOMENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does burdensomeness mean?
• BURDENSOMENESS (noun)
The noun BURDENSOMENESS has 1 sense:
1. unwelcome burdensome difficulty
Familiarity information: BURDENSOMENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unwelcome burdensome difficulty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
burdensomeness; heaviness; onerousness; oppressiveness
Hypernyms ("burdensomeness" is a kind of...):
difficultness; difficulty (the quality of being difficult)
Derivation:
burdensome (not easily borne; wearing)
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