laboriosity

Noun

laboriosity (uncountable)

1. Laboriousness.
   • It is a hard thing to be obliged to lay bare the nakedness of our own father-land, and feel ourselves compelled to confess that a foreign people, whom we had long looked down upon with contempt, making slighting mention occasionally, now of their minute laboriosity, now of their mad extravagance...1839 January, “K.O. Müller's Eumenides—German and English Scholarship”, in The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 22, number 44, page 235
   • Aristotle therefore may justly be regarded as the great prototype of those modern Germans who, like the mailed knights of the middle ages, stand up in our libraries, cased in the invulnerable panoply of polyhistoric and encyclopædic erudition; and he gave birth to that curious sort of intellectual...1874, John Stuart Blackie, Four Phases of Morals: Socrates, Aristotle, Christianity, Utilitarianism, page 138