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challengingness

challengingness noun: quality or degree of being challenging.

Noun

challengingness (uncountable)

  1. Quality or degree of being challenging.
    • Consequently, although the stimulus selection was clearly restricted, we propose that similar findings (at least in principle) should apply to a broader range of artistic artefacts despite potential variations in central stimulus-dimensions (such as subject matter, colorization, or image size)...2015 August 27, “When Challenging Art Gets Liked: Evidences for a Dual Preference Formation Process for Fluent and Non-Fluent Portraits”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of challengingness

From challenging + -ness.

Questions about challengingness

What does challengingness mean?
Challengingness means quality or degree of being challenging.
What part of speech is challengingness?
Challengingness is a noun.

Words near challengingness in the dictionary

  1. challenges
  2. challengest
  3. challengeth
  4. challenging
  5. challengingly
  6. challengingness
  7. challengings
  8. challis
  9. challises
  10. Challoch
  11. Challoner

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