difficultness vs severity

severity vs difficultness

difficultness and severity both are nouns.

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

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

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

Difference between difficultness and severity

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