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EFFORTFULNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of requiring deliberate effort
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("effortfulness" is a kind of...):
difficultness; difficulty (the quality of being difficult)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "effortfulness"):
arduousness; strenuousness (extreme effortfulness)
laboriousness; operoseness; toilsomeness (the quality of requiring extended effort)
Antonym:
effortlessness (the quality of requiring little effort)
Derivation:
effortful (requiring great physical effort)
