difficultness vs hindrance

hindrance vs difficultness

difficultness and hindrance both are nouns.

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

As nouns, hindrance is a hyponym of difficultness; that is, hindrance 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
hindrance: 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, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, 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)	hindrance (noun)
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding
	any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
	something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress

Difference between difficultness and hindrance

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