difficultness vs thorniness

thorniness vs difficultness

difficultness and thorniness both are nouns.

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

As nouns, thorniness is a hyponym of difficultness; that is, thorniness 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
thorniness: The property of being full of difficulties, complexities, or controversial points.

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, stress, mire, job, problem, situation, urinary hesitancy, wall.

difficultness (noun)	thorniness (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 covered with prickly thorns or spines
	a rough and bitter manner
	The property of being full of difficulties, complexities, or controversial points.

Difference between difficultness and thorniness

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