difficultness vs mire

mire vs difficultness

difficultness and mire both are nouns.

difficultness is not a verb while mire is a verb.

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

As nouns, mire is a hyponym of difficultness; that is, mire 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
mire: a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from

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, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle, hard time, rough sledding, strain, stress, job, problem, situation, urinary hesitancy, wall, thorniness.

difficultness (noun)	mire (noun)
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
	a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from
	deep soft mud in water or slush

difficultness (verb)	mire (verb)
	soil with mud, muck, or mire
	be unable to move further
	cause to get stuck as if in a mire
	entrap

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