difficultness vs onerousness

onerousness vs difficultness

difficultness and onerousness both are nouns.

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

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

Other hyponyms of difficultness include effortfulness, asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, hardness, ruggedness, formidability, toughness, burdensomeness, heaviness, 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)	onerousness (noun)
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	unwelcome burdensome difficulty

Difference between difficultness and onerousness

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