Definition of "strenuousness" [strenuousness]

• The state or character of being strenuous; eagerness; earnestness; active zeal. (noun)

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• "We have the same and a great deal more than the same absence of wealth and luxury and case, which, while they breed the highest civilizations and the highest art, no doubt, and the most minute science, nevertheless deprive those who live under such conditions of a certain strenuousness and nervous energy."
• "More than one of the influences thus hastily surveyed combine in creating the moral, social, and intellectual strenuousness which is one of the main marks of the literature of the period."
• "That they attributed to his "strenuousness" in his work, and thought it to be deplored."