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noun
subjective experience of exertion or effort involved in performing an activity
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the quality of requiring deliberate effort
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: effortlessness
Broader terms: difficulty, difficultness
Narrower terms: arduousness, strenuousness, laboriousness, operoseness, toilsomeness
History
Etymology tree English effortful Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English effortfulness From effortful + -ness.
