rigorousness
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- rigourousness (non‐standard)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle English rigoresnes, rigoresnesse, rigorousenes, equivalent to rigorous + -ness.
Noun
[edit]rigorousness (usually uncountable, plural rigorousnesses)
- The property of being rigorous, strictness.
- 2020, Eley Williams, The Liarʼs Dictionary, William Heinemann, page 13:
- Not the first nor the best and certainly not the most famous dictionary of the English language, Swansby’s has always been a poor shadow of its competitors as a work of reference – from the first printed edition in 1930 to today it has nowhere near the success nor rigorousness of Britannica and the Oxford English Dictionary.