Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ruggedness
3 senses of ruggedness
Sense 1
huskiness, ruggedness, toughness -- (the property of being big and strong)
=> strength -- (the property of being physically or mentally strong; "fatigue sapped his strength")
Sense 2
ruggedness -- (the quality of being topologically uneven; "the ruggedness of the mountains")
=> unevenness, variability -- (the quality of being uneven and lacking uniformity)
Sense 3
hardness, ruggedness -- (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")
=> difficulty, difficultness -- (the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb")