Meanings
- uncountableThe state or property of being assiduous; industriousness.
Finding that his health was failing, because of the assiduousness which a proper discharge of the duties of the position demanded the year round, he acquainted the President with his desire to withdraw from public duties.
1856, William L. G. Smith, The Life and Times of Lewis Cass, page 3231 more example
I found his assiduousness alarming at first, then gradually endearing. When I remarked, after a few long days together, that he never seemed to visit the men’s room, he said, “I will practice going to the bathroom more often so you humans don’t realize that I’m the A.I.”
2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker
Synonyms & antonyms
noungreat and constant diligence and attention
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Polish gorliwość, sumienność
- gorliwośćTranslations
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- wytrwałośćTranslations
Cite this entry
assiduousness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/assiduousness
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