ruggedness

1. 1.

   the property of being big and strong

   Synonymshuskinesstoughness

   Broaderstrength
2. 2.

   the quality of being topologically uneven

   “the ruggedness of the mountains”

   Broaderunevenness

   Narrowerhilliness
3. 3.

   the quality of being difficult to do

   “he assigned a series of problems of increasing hardness”

   “the ruggedness of his exams caused half the class to fail”

   Synonymshardness

   Broaderdifficulty

Other forms of ruggedness

plural

ruggednesses·

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 ruggedness

What does ruggedness mean?

ruggedness means "the property of being big and strong". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ruggedness?

ruggedness has 3 syllables: rug-ged-ness. The stress falls on "rug".

What is another word for ruggedness?

Close synonyms include huskiness, toughness, hardness. 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 ruggedness a common word?

ruggedness 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.