Definition of "effortfulness" []

• Subjective experience of exertion or effort involved in performing an activity (noun)

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• "Obama seems to have an instinct for a fundamental rule of political theater: the inverse relationship between the effortfulness of stagecraft and the perception of substantive policy."
• "In order to locate the possible neural source of the motor content and effortfulness effect for implied motion perception, two separate swLORETA source reconstructions were performed on the difference waves obtained by subtracting the ERPs to static from those elicited by dynamic pictures in two adjacent time windows, 380-430 and 430-480 ms."
• "Overall, these data suggest that the perceived effortfulness of visually presented actions affects the autonomic response by increasing the heart and respiratory rates as a function of the perceived muscular effort."