onerousnessn.
/ˈəʊn(ə)rəsnəs/, /ˈɒnərəsnəs/, U.S. /ˈoʊnərəsnəs/, /ˈɑnərəsnəs/ The quality of being burdensome or troublesome.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > encumberment > burdensomeness
heavinessc950
burdensomeness1574
poise1593
burdensome1645
cumbersomeness1785
onerousness1849
1849 Littell's Living Age 3 Feb. 234/2 I answered, in the same vein, that whatever the onerousness, it was but a slight and insufficient penalty of the mass of the obloquy of American presidents and people.
1877 S. J. Owen in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches Introd. p. xxxix The position..which Wellesley was determined to compel them to recognise in all its amplitude and onerousness.
1922 Econ. Jrnl. 32 527 He represents economic theory as though it were built up on such foundations as ‘the logarithmic proportion between the quantity of work and the feeling of onerousness’.
1989 D. Watson Managing Modular Course (BNC) 115 It was predictable that the onerousness of the rating task held down response rate somewhat.
2000 R. C. Morris Place of Origin ii. 74 Local myth expresses the onerousness of rice agriculture.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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