difficultness vs baulk

baulk vs difficultness

difficultness and baulk both are nouns.

difficultness is not a verb while baulk is a verb.

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

As nouns, baulk is a hyponym of difficultness; that is, baulk 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
baulk: 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, balk, 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)	baulk (noun)
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	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)	baulk (verb)
	refuse to comply

Difference between difficultness and baulk

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