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Onerosity vs Operosity - What's the difference?

onerosity | operosity |

As nouns the difference between onerosity and operosity

is that onerosity is onerousness while operosity is laboriousness.

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.

    operosity

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • laboriousness
    • (Bishop Hall)
    (Webster 1913)