OPEROSENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does operoseness mean? 

• OPEROSENESS (noun)
  The noun OPEROSENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of requiring extended effort

  Familiarity information: OPEROSENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPEROSENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of requiring extended effort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

laboriousness; operoseness; toilsomeness

Hypernyms ("operoseness" is a kind of...):

effortfulness (the quality of requiring deliberate effort)

Derivation:

operose (characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort)