difficultness vs heaviness

heaviness vs difficultness

difficultness and heaviness both are nouns.

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

As nouns, heaviness is a hyponym of difficultness; that is, heaviness 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
heaviness: unwelcome burdensome difficulty

Other hyponyms of difficultness include effortfulness, asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, hardness, ruggedness, formidability, toughness, burdensomeness, 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)	heaviness (noun)
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	the property of being comparatively great in weight
	used of a line or mark
	unwelcome burdensome difficulty
	an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency
	persisting sadness

Difference between difficultness and heaviness

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