difficultness vs hardship

hardship vs difficultness

difficultness and hardship both are nouns.

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

As nouns, hardship is a hyponym of difficultness; that is, hardship 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
hardship: something hard to endure

Other hyponyms of difficultness include effortfulness, asperity, grimness, 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)	hardship (noun)
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	something hard to endure
	something that causes or entails suffering
	a state of misfortune or affliction

Difference between difficultness and hardship

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