difficultness vs predicament

predicament vs difficultness

difficultness and predicament both are nouns.

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

As nouns, predicament is a hyponym of difficultness; that is, predicament 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
predicament: 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, plight, 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)	predicament (noun)
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one

Difference between difficultness and predicament

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