difficultness vs subtlety

subtlety vs difficultness

difficultness and subtlety both are nouns.

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

As nouns, subtlety is a hyponym of difficultness; that is, subtlety 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
subtlety: the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze

Other hyponyms of difficultness include effortfulness, asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, hardness, ruggedness, formidability, toughness, burdensomeness, heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness, niceness, 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)	subtlety (noun)
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze
	a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude

Difference between difficultness and subtlety

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