difficultness vs pitfall

pitfall vs difficultness

difficultness and pitfall both are nouns.

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

As nouns, pitfall is a hyponym of difficultness; that is, pitfall 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
pitfall: an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty

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, 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)	pitfall (noun)
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	a trap in the form of a concealed hole
	an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty

Difference between difficultness and pitfall

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