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Onerosity vs Onerousness - What's the difference?

onerosity | onerousness | Synonyms |

Onerousness is a synonym of onerosity.



As nouns the difference between onerosity and onerousness

is that onerosity is onerousness while onerousness is the state or characteristic of being onerous.

onerosity

English

Noun

(-)
  • (rare) Onerousness.
  • (Scotland, legal) The legal state of affairs resulting from being done or given in return for receipt of something of value.
  • * 1845 , , The Law of Bankruptcy, Insolvency, and Mercantile Sequestration, in Scotland , W. Tait, p. 145:
    • It may be presumed to be a necessary ingredient in onerosity , that the obligation to be fulfilled is a legal one.

    Synonyms

    * (onerousness) burdensomeness

    Antonyms

    * (Scottish legal) non-onerosity

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary , 3rd ed., 2004.

    onerousness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or characteristic of being onerous.
  • *1898 , McKinley,
  • *:The Government of Greece strongly urges the onerousness of the duty here imposed upon the currants of that country, amounting to 100 per cent or more of their market value.

    • Synonyms

    * burdensomeness, onerosity