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LABORIOUSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does laboriousness mean?
• LABORIOUSNESS (noun)
The noun LABORIOUSNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of requiring extended effort
Familiarity information: LABORIOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of requiring extended effort
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
laboriousness; operoseness; toilsomeness
Hypernyms ("laboriousness" is a kind of...):
effortfulness (the quality of requiring deliberate effort)
Derivation:
laborious (characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort)
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