difficultness vs stress

stress vs difficultness

difficultness and stress both are nouns.

difficultness is not a verb while stress is a verb.

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

As nouns, stress is a hyponym of difficultness; that is, stress 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
stress: difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension

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, rough sledding, strain, mire, job, problem, situation, urinary hesitancy, wall, thorniness.

difficultness (noun)	stress (noun)
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
	(physics) force that produces strain on a physical body
	(psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense
	difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension
	special emphasis attached to something

difficultness (verb)	stress (verb)
	to suffer from stress
	to stress, single out as important
	put stress on; utter with an accent
	test the limits of

Difference between difficultness and stress

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