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