difficultness vs impediment

impediment vs difficultness

difficultness and impediment both are nouns.

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

As nouns, impediment is a hyponym of difficultness; that is, impediment 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
impediment: 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, hindrance, 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)	impediment (noun)
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	any structure that makes progress difficult
	something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress

Difference between difficultness and impediment

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