strenuousness

English

Etymology

From strenuous +‎ -ness.

Noun

strenuousness (usually uncountable, plural strenuousnesses)

1. The state or character of being strenuous; active zeal.

   Synonyms: eagerness, earnestness, strenuosity

   • 1981 February 14, Roger Moody, “Retrial for PIE Defendants”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 4:

     Here the debate might have moved into the political arena. For it has been clear over the past two years that the British Home Office and police do regard PIE as a corrupting organization. Hence the strenuousness with which they prosecuted this case — using a law which has, for some years, been condemned by many British legal authorities as unsafe and undesirable.

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “strenuousness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “strenuousness”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.