In many applications, effortfulness is simply reported by a patient, client, or experimental subject.

There has been some work establishing an association among reported effortfulness and objective measures, such as in brain imaging.

Effortfulness is used as a diagnostic indicator in medical and psychological diagnosis and assessment.

Still, a certain effortfulness - fussing and worrying, even - is an essential part of the wood-gathering and burning experience.

In psychology effortfulness is the subjective experience of exertion in connection with an activity, but especially the mental aspects of an activity.

Haltingly, with the effortfulness of a man who begins to realize what enormous crimes he must make amends for, Jarles said, "I can take you to where the Fanatic priests are imprisoned.

A steely effortfulness courses through her clipped, brisk speech; her tautly set mouth; her way in conversation of hugging herself into a sloped, stony barricade against the words of others.

But this book is no boneless "meditation"; it has all the onward rush and effortfulness of an epic, and it's studded with the terrible stories you hear from acquaintances in "the insomniac world of travelers."