difficultness vs rigorousness

rigorousness vs difficultness

difficultness and rigorousness both are nouns.

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

As nouns, rigorousness is a hyponym of difficultness; that is, rigorousness 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
rigorousness: something hard to endure

Other hyponyms of difficultness include effortfulness, asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, 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, 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)	rigorousness (noun)
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	something hard to endure
	excessive sternness

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