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Onerousness

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n. The state or characteristic of of being onerous.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The character of being onerous; oppressive operation; burdensomeness.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. unwelcome burdensome difficulty

Word Usage

"There are several reasons for hoping that international terrorism isn't about religion -- not least of them the immense onerousness, the near-impossibility, now, of maintaining a discourse (I'll put this simply) that makes distinctions between groups of human beings."

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