difficultness vs plight

plight vs difficultness

difficultness and plight both are nouns.

difficultness is not a verb while plight is a verb.

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

As nouns, plight is a hyponym of difficultness; that is, plight 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
plight: a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one

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, 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)	plight (noun)
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	a solemn pledge of fidelity
	a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one

difficultness (verb)	plight (verb)
	promise solemnly and formally
	give to in marriage

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