arduousness

arduous | American Dictionary

arduous
adjective
us/ˈɑr·dʒu·əs/
difficult and tiring, or needing a great deal of effort:
In those days, a trip to the West was an arduous journey.

Examples of arduous

arduous
It is to these influences and the net effects of poverty, deprivation and early and arduous employment on children's welfare that we now turn.
The task of compiling a family reconstitution for a village is arduous, and sometimes ' ' extremely so.
Domestic work remained especially arduous since, even in the 1970s, a large part of rural housing lacked basic amenities.
The journey into evacuation, although often long and almost inevitably arduous, traversed no international boundary.
Despite all this, completing the book - though immensely rewarding - is an arduous undertaking.
The network of safety rehumanized patients by providing a sense of safety in the face of arduous treatment and recovery.
No longer is it such an arduous task to keep track of words that never stay still, though problems for dictionary-makers still abound.
His birthplace, however, proved a partial salvation from the arduous and debilitating routine of plantation labour in the coffee fields.
But the following two examples show that this could be arduous.
For their part, the women are probably happy enough to be relieved of what (despite its romantic possibilities) is such arduous, unpleasant and low-status toil.
To better our condition on a continuous basis is an arduous process, one that must ultimately undermine our efforts at moral improvement.
Choosing deliberately to care and to maintain the relationship through sickness, even when this was arduous, gave them gratification.
Generalizing the accumulated knowledge of this rural past becomes an arduous task, therefore.
Clarification of this point would however be extremely arduous and is beyond the scope of this present paper.
Moreover, since new recruits were commonly assigned the most physically taxing work, older members could be released for less arduous tasks.
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