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TROUBLESOMENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A difficulty that causes anxiety
Synonyms:
inconvenience; troublesomeness; worriment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("troublesomeness" is a kind of...):
difficultness; difficulty (the quality of being difficult)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "troublesomeness"):
awkwardness; cumbersomeness; unwieldiness (trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape)
flea bite (a very minor inconvenience)
fly in the ointment (an inconvenience that detracts from the usefulness of something)
unwieldiness (the quality of being difficult to direct or control by reason of complexity)
Derivation:
troublesome (causing difficulty or annoyance)
