difficulty vs effortfulness

effortfulness vs difficulty

difficulty and effortfulness both are nouns.

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

As nouns, effortfulness is a hyponym of difficulty; that is, effortfulness 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
effortfulness: the quality of requiring deliberate effort

Other hyponyms of difficulty include 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, thorniness.

difficulty (noun)	effortfulness (noun)
an effort that is inconvenient	the quality of requiring deliberate effort
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result

Difference between difficulty and effortfulness

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