difficultness vs deterrent

deterrent vs difficultness

difficultness and deterrent both are nouns.

difficultness is not an adjective while deterrent is an adjective.

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

As nouns, deterrent is a hyponym of difficultness; that is, deterrent 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
deterrent: 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, baulk, check, 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)	deterrent (noun)
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress

difficultness (adjective)	deterrent (adjective)
	tending to deter

Difference between difficultness and deterrent

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