difficultness vs formidability

formidability vs difficultness

difficultness and formidability both are nouns.

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

As nouns, formidability is a hyponym of difficultness; that is, formidability 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
formidability: impressive difficulty

Other hyponyms of difficultness include effortfulness, asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, hardness, ruggedness, 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)	formidability (noun)
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	impressive difficulty

Difference between difficultness and formidability

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