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means The quality of working steadily and diligently, applying real effort over time rather than just bursts of motion.

from Traces back to the Latin 'industria,' meaning diligence or activity, possibly built from 'indu' (within) and 'struere' (to build) — so at its root, the word literally means something like 'building from within.' It entered English through French in the 15th century as 'industrious,' originally describing skillful, purposeful effort before the noun 'industriousness' followed to name the trait itself — long before 'industry' narrowed to mean factories and economies.