difficultness vs balk

balk vs difficultness

difficultness and balk both are nouns.

difficultness is not a verb while balk is a verb.

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

As nouns, balk is a hyponym of difficultness; that is, balk 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
balk: something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress

Other hyponyms of difficultness include effortfulness, asperity, 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, 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)	balk (noun)
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
	one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
	something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
	the area on a billiard table behind the balkline

difficultness (verb)	balk (verb)
	refuse to comply

Difference between difficultness and balk

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