difficultness vs rough sledding

rough sledding vs difficultness

difficultness and rough sledding both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
difficultness	Yes	No	No	No
rough sledding	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, rough sledding is a hyponym of difficultness; that is, rough sledding 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
rough sledding: a difficulty that can be overcome with effort

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, quandary, rattrap, pinch, fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle, hard time, strain, stress, mire, job, problem, situation, urinary hesitancy, wall, thorniness.

difficultness (noun)	rough sledding (noun)
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	a difficulty that can be overcome with effort

Difference between difficultness and rough sledding

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