difficultness vs kettle of fish

kettle of fish vs difficultness

difficultness and kettle of fish both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
difficultness	Yes	No	No	No
kettle of fish	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, kettle of fish is a hyponym of difficultness; that is, kettle of fish 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
kettle of fish: informal terms for a difficult situation

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, impediment, wrinkle, bitch, plight, predicament, quandary, rattrap, pinch, fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, hard time, rough sledding, strain, stress, mire, job, problem, situation, urinary hesitancy, wall, thorniness.

difficultness (noun)	kettle of fish (noun)
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	informal terms for a difficult situation

Difference between difficultness and kettle of fish

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