toughness (n.)
- abstruseness
- adhesiveness
- arduousness
- astringency
- austerity
- authoritarianism
- backbone
- body
- bottom
- bullheadedness
- burdensomeness
- callosity
- callousness
- chutzpah
- clamminess
- clotting
- coagulation
- cohesiveness
- complexity
- complication
- concreteness
- consistency
- courage
- curdling
- decisiveness
- density
- difficultness
- difficulty
- discipline
- durability
- endurance
- energy
- firmness
- force
- fortitude
- gameness
- gelatinousness
- gluiness
- glutinosity
- glutinousness
- grimness
- grit
- gumminess
- guts
- gutsiness
- hairiness
- hardiness
- hardness
- harshness
- heart
- heartiness
- heaviness
- immovability
- immutability
- impenetrability
- induration
- inelasticity
- inexorability
- inflexibility
- inspissation
- intransigence
- intransigency
- intricacy
- laboriousness
- lustiness
- mass
- materiality
- meticulousness
- mettle
- mettlesomeness
- might
- mightiness
- moxie
- nerve
- obduracy
- obstinacy
- onerousness
- oppressiveness
- palpability
- persistence
- persistency
- pith
- pluck
- pluckiness
- potency
- power
- powerfulness
- regimentation
- relentlessness
- resistance
- restiveness
- retention
- rigidity
- rigor
- rigorousness
- robustness
- ropiness
- ruggedness
- severity
- sliminess
- snugness
- solidity
- soundness
- spirit
- spunk
- stability
- stalwartness
- stamina
- steadiness
- sternness
- stickiness
- stiffness
- stodginess
- stoutness
- strength
- strenuousness
- strictness
- stringency
- stubbornness
- sturdiness
- substance
- substantiality
- substantialness
- tackiness
- tangibility
- tenaciousness
- tenacity
- thickening
- thickness
- tightness
- toilsomeness
- troublesomeness
- unalterability
- unchangeability
- unyieldingness
- vigor
- viscidity
- viscosity
- viscousness
- vitality