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English noun: rigour | |||
| 1. | rigour (attribute) the quality of being valid and rigorous | ||
| Synonyms | cogency, rigor, validity | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | believability, credibility, credibleness | ||
| 2. | rigour (attribute) something hard to endure | ||
| Samples | The asperity of northern winters. | ||
| Synonyms | asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigourousness, severeness, severity | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | difficultness, difficulty | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | sternness | ||
| 3. | rigour (attribute) excessive sternness | ||
| Samples | Severity of character. The harshness of his punishment was inhuman. The rigors of boot camp. | ||
| Synonyms | hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | sternness, strictness | ||
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