rigorousness

Other forms of rigorousness

plural

rigorousnesses·

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.

Questions about rigorousness

What does rigorousness mean?

rigorousness means "something hard to endure". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rigorousness?

rigorousness has 4 syllables: ri-go-rou-sness. The stress falls on "go".

What is another word for rigorousness?

Close synonyms include asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rigorousness a common word?

rigorousness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.