Other forms: rigours
Rigour is strictness and care in reasoning. Academic rigour, lacks rigour, with great rigour.
It means the method is tight enough that the conclusion has to follow, not merely that the work was hard. In the plural, the rigours of something are its hardships. Note the American spelling rigor, and that the medical rigor mortis keeps the old sense of stiffness.
1nounrigourStrictness and care in reasoning.
“The study was praised for its scientific rigour and careful use of data.”
rigour is a quality of method.
Also accepted in games: rigor
Latin rigor means stiffness or hardness, from rigere, to be stiff. Rigid comes from the same stiffness.
Latin
rigor — stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness
Old French
rigor
Middle English
rigour
English, today
rigour
Built from
From Middle English rigour, from Anglo-Norman -, from Old French rigor, from Latin rigor (“stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness”), from rigere (“to be rigid”). Compare French rigueur.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA