difficulty vs formidability

formidability vs difficulty

difficulty and formidability both are nouns.

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

As nouns, formidability is a hyponym of difficulty; that is, formidability 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
formidability: impressive difficulty

Other hyponyms of difficulty include effortfulness, asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, hardness, ruggedness, 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)	formidability (noun)
an effort that is inconvenient	impressive difficulty
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 formidability

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