difficultness vs oppressiveness

oppressiveness vs difficultness

difficultness and oppressiveness both are nouns.

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

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

Other hyponyms of difficultness include effortfulness, asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, hardness, ruggedness, formidability, toughness, burdensomeness, heaviness, onerousness, 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)	oppressiveness (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
	a feeling of being oppressed

Difference between difficultness and oppressiveness

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.