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DIFFICULTNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being difficult
Example:
they agreed about the difficulty of the climb
Synonyms:
difficultness; difficulty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("difficultness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Attribute:
difficult; hard (not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "difficultness"):
effortfulness (the quality of requiring deliberate effort)
asperity; grimness; hardship; rigor; rigorousness; rigour; rigourousness; severeness; severity (something hard to endure)
hardness; ruggedness (the quality of being difficult to do)
formidability; toughness (impressive difficulty)
burdensomeness; heaviness; onerousness; oppressiveness (unwelcome burdensome difficulty)
niceness; subtlety (the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze)
inconvenience; troublesomeness; worriment (a difficulty that causes anxiety)
Derivation:
difficult (not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure)
