difficultness vs severeness

severeness vs difficultness

difficultness and severeness both are nouns.

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

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

Other hyponyms of difficultness include effortfulness, asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, 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)	severeness (noun)
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	extreme plainness
	excessive sternness
	something hard to endure
	used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather

Difference between difficultness and severeness

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