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rigorousness

rigorousness noun: the property of being rigorous, strictness.

Noun

rigorousness (usually uncountable, plural rigorousnesses)

  1. (usually) The property of being rigorous, strictness.
    • Not the first nor the best and certainly not the most famous dictionary of the English language, Swansby’s has always been a poor shadow of its competitors as a work of reference – from the first printed edition in 1930 to today it has nowhere near the success nor rigorousness of Britannica and the...2020, Eley Williams, The Liarʼs Dictionary, William Heinemann, page 13

rigorousness meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

rigorousness in Tamil

கடினம்

rigorousness in Malayalam

rigorousness
കർക്കശത kaṟkkaśata

Forms of rigorousness

pluralrigorousnesses
alternative formrigourousness

Origin of rigorousness

From Middle English rigoresnes, rigoresnesse, rigorousenes, equivalent to rigorous + -ness.

Questions about rigorousness

What does rigorousness mean?
Rigorousness means the property of being rigorous, strictness.
What is rigorousness in Tamil?
Rigorousness in Tamil is கடினம். See Rigorousness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is rigorousness?
Rigorousness is a noun.
What is the plural of rigorousness?
The plural of rigorousness is rigorousnesses.

Words near rigorousness in the dictionary

  1. rigorized
  2. rigorizes
  3. rigorizing
  4. rigorous
  5. rigorously
  6. rigorousness
  7. rigorousnesses
  8. rigors
  9. rigosertib
  10. rigosol
  11. rigosols

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rigorousness (page history and authors); rigorousness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); കർക്കശത (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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