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Antonyms for strenuousness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : stren-yoo-uhs |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈstrɛn yu əs |
- advantage
- aid
- assistance
- benefit
- blessing
- calm
- calmness
- comfort
- contentment
- ease
- encouragement
- enervation
- favor
- felicity
- good health
- happiness
- harmony
- health
- help
- helplessness
- idleness
- impotence
- inability
- inactivity
- inadequacy
- incompetence
- inefficiency
- ineptness
- lack
- lethargy
- opening
- order
- organization
- peace
- pleasure
- powerlessness
- promotion
- satisfaction
- solution
- success
- tranquility
- weakness
Definition of strenuousness
Origin :- "characterized by great effort," 1590s, from Latin strenuus "active, vigorous, keen." Probably cognate with Greek strenes, strenos "keen, strong," strenos "arrogance, eager desire," Old English stierne "hard, severe, keen" (see stern (adj.)). Mocked by Ben Jonson as a pedantic neologism in "Poetaster" (1601). Sense of "requiring much energy" is first recorded 1670s. Related: Strenuously; strenuousness.
- As in might : noun ability, power
- As in difficulty : noun problem; situation requiring great effort
- She felt the strenuousness of striving to keep abreast of Hattie.
- Extract from : « Emmy Lou » by George Madden Martin
- In each reader the strenuousness had taken a different form.
- Extract from : « Emmy Lou » by George Madden Martin
- I know now that the speed and strenuousness of it was telling upon all of us.
- Extract from : « The Message » by Alec John Dawson
- He had brought back to the flat the strenuousness of business.
- Extract from : « The Innocents » by Sinclair Lewis
- It was unnecessary, but I wished to present an appearance of strenuousness.
- Extract from : « Sonia Between two Worlds » by Stephen McKenna
- The strain of the moment is felt in the strenuousness of the prophecy.
- Extract from : « The Book of Isaiah, Volume I (of 2) » by George Adam Smith
- One can only characterise this as a very superfluity of strenuousness.
- Extract from : « A Short History of English Music » by Ernest Ford
- If it is defective, the defect all comes from some want of strenuousness as you went along.
- Extract from : « Stained Glass Work » by C. W. Whall
- Any lack of strenuousness about the Cretan Fair was amply atoned for.
- Extract from : « Julia Ward Howe » by Laura E. Richards
- It requires intensity of thought and strenuousness of will and solidity of judgment.
- Extract from : « The Gentle Reader » by Samuel McChord Crothers
Synonyms for strenuousness
- adequacy
- adversity
- arduousness
- arm
- authority
- awkwardness
- barricade
- capability
- capacity
- check
- clout
- command
- competence
- complication
- control
- crisis
- crux
- dead end
- deadlock
- deep water
- dilemma
- distress
- domination
- efficacy
- efficiency
- emergency
- energy
- exigency
- fix
- force
- forcefulness
- forcibleness
- frustration
- get-up-and-go
- hardship
- hazard
- hindrance
- hitch
- hot water
- impasse
- jurisdiction
- knot
- labor
- laboriousness
- lustiness
- mastery
- mess
- misfortune
- moxie
- muddle
- muscle
- obstacle
- obstruction
- pain
- painfulness
- paradox
- peppiness
- perplexity
- pickle
- potency
- powerfulness
- predicament
- prowess
- puissance
- punch
- quagmire
- qualification
- qualifiedness
- quandary
- scrape
- sinew
- snag
- steam
- stew
- strain
- strait
- strength
- strenuousness
- strong arm
- struggle
- stumbling block
- sway
- tribulation
- trouble
- valor
- vigor
- vigorousness
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