difficultness vs effortfulness

effortfulness vs difficultness

difficultness and effortfulness both are nouns.

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

As nouns, effortfulness is a hyponym of difficultness; that is, effortfulness 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
effortfulness: the quality of requiring deliberate effort

Other hyponyms of difficultness include 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, 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)	effortfulness (noun)
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	the quality of requiring deliberate effort

Difference between difficultness and effortfulness

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