robustness

/ (rəʊˈbʌstnɪs) /


noun
  1. the quality of being robust

  2. computing the ability of a computer system to cope with errors during execution

Words Nearby robustness

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How to use robustness in a sentence

  • Mere physical robustness is of far less account in carrying one through an extended course of study than prudence and good sense.

    The Education of American Girls | Anna Callender Brackett
  • The fever might have gone the worse with her because of her over-fed robustness; at any rate it went badly enough.

    Questionable Shapes | William Dean Howells
  • Looking back at him, what strikes one most was his singularly boyish cheerfulness and robustness of temperament.

  • Craven, fresh from his successes at golf, looked full of the open-air spirit and the robustness of the galloping twenties.

    December Love | Robert Hichens
  • There was a certain pleasant, natural robustness of spirit, and something of a feudal free-and-easiness.

    Sea and Sardinia | D. H. Lawrence