difficultness vs problem

problem vs difficultness

difficultness and problem both are nouns.

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

As nouns, problem is a hyponym of difficultness; that is, problem 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
problem: a source of 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, 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, situation, urinary hesitancy, wall, thorniness.

difficultness (noun)	problem (noun)
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	a source of difficulty
	a question raised for consideration or solution
	a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved

Difference between difficultness and problem

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