rigourousness

Noun

• excessive sternness
  • severity of character
    
  • the harshness of his punishment was inhuman
    
  • the rigors of boot camp
    

• something hard to endure
  • the asperity of northern winters
    

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• Synonyms: 
  asperity , grimness , hardship , rigor , rigour , severity , severeness , rigorousness