difficultness vs asperity

asperity vs difficultness

difficultness and asperity both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
difficultness	Yes	No	No	No
asperity	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, asperity is a hyponym of difficultness; that is, asperity is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than difficultness:

difficultness: the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result
asperity: something hard to endure

Other hyponyms of difficultness include effortfulness, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, hardness, ruggedness, formidability, toughness, burdensomeness, heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness, niceness, subtlety, inconvenience, troublesomeness, worriment, problem, trouble, facer, killer, kink, pisser, booby trap, pitfall, snorter, balk, baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment, wrinkle, bitch, plight, predicament, quandary, rattrap, pinch, fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle, hard time, rough sledding, strain, stress, mire, job, problem, situation, urinary hesitancy, wall, thorniness.

difficultness (noun)	asperity (noun)
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	something hard to endure
	harshness of manner

Difference between difficultness and asperity

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