difficulty vs asperity

asperity vs difficulty

difficulty and asperity both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
difficulty	Yes	No	No	No
asperity	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, asperity is a hyponym of difficulty; that is, asperity is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than difficulty:

difficulty: the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result
asperity: something hard to endure

Other hyponyms of difficulty include effortfulness, 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, thorniness.

difficulty (noun)	asperity (noun)
an effort that is inconvenient	something hard to endure
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	harshness of manner

Difference between difficulty and asperity

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