difficultness vs booby trap

booby trap vs difficultness

difficultness and booby trap both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
difficultness	Yes	No	No	No
booby trap	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, booby trap is a hyponym of difficultness; that is, booby trap 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
booby trap: an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty

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, 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)	booby trap (noun)
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	an explosive mine hidden underground; explodes when stepped on or driven over
	an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty

Difference between difficultness and booby trap

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