difficultness vs quandary

quandary vs difficultness

difficultness and quandary both are nouns.

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

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

Difference between difficultness and quandary

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