Definition

Noun: - The quality of requiring extended effort: This refers to the characteristic of a task or activity that demands considerable, prolonged, or strenuous work. It describes the state of being laborious and demanding sustained physical or mental exertion.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • The toilsomeness of the manual labor left him exhausted by the end of the day.
  • She was not prepared for the sheer toilsomeness of writing a doctoral thesis.
  • The project's success was a testament to their willingness to endure its toilsomeness.

Advanced Usage

• "The toilsomeness of the endeavor": A formal phrase used to emphasize the arduous nature of a significant undertaking.
  • They underestimated the toilsomeness of the endeavor and soon fell behind schedule.

Variants and Related Words

• Toilsome (adj): Involving hard or continuous work; laborious.
  • Digging the trench was a toilsome task.
• Toil (n/v): Hard and continuous work; to work extremely hard.
  • Years of toil went into building the business. (n)
  • Workers toiled in the fields all day. (v)

Synonyms

• Laboriousness: The quality of requiring much hard work.
• Arduousness: The state of involving strenuous effort; difficulty.
• Strenuousness: The quality of requiring great energy or exertion.

Antonyms

• Ease: Lack of difficulty or effort.
• Effortlessness: The quality of requiring no apparent effort.

Noun

1. the quality of requiring extended effort