Associations to the word «Ruggedness»

Wiktionary

RUGGEDNESS, noun. The state of being rugged, or degree to which something is rugged.

Dictionary definition

RUGGEDNESS, noun. The property of being big and strong.
RUGGEDNESS, noun. The quality of being topologically uneven; "the ruggedness of the mountains".
RUGGEDNESS, noun. The quality of being difficult to do; "he assigned a series of problems of increasing hardness"; "the ruggedness of his exams caused half the class to fail".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats