strenuous
adjective
characterized by vigorous exertion, as action, efforts, life, etc..
strenuousness
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a word derived from
strenuous.
Example Sentences
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In Kurdistan, you can often determine a path’s strenuousness by the kinds of dung found along it.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2022
But the strenuousness of the effort shows, and the results, it seems to me, are unconvincing and at times dismayingly reductive.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2021
It failed less for its experimentation, which was spotty, than for the strenuousness with which he pursued it.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2010
A day in which the most arduous choice has been between "grande" and "tall" does not conduce to literary strenuousness.'
From The Guardian ● Sep. 29, 2010
Perhaps the Party was rotten under the surface, its cult of strenuousness and self-denial simply a sham concealing iniquity.
From "1984" by George Orwell
