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say it: ree-SAWR-sfuhl-nuhs
resourcefulness is a noun meaning "the quality of being able to cope with a difficult situation". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the quality of being able to cope with a difficult situation
“a man of great resourcefulness”
the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems
“a man of resource”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for resourcefulness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.