difficulty vs handicap

handicap vs difficulty

difficulty and handicap both are nouns.

difficulty is not a verb while handicap is a verb.

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

As nouns, handicap is a hyponym of difficulty; that is, handicap 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
handicap: something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress

Other hyponyms of difficulty 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, 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)	handicap (noun)
an effort that is inconvenient	advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
	the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness

difficulty (verb)	handicap (verb)
	injure permanently
	put at a disadvantage
	attempt to forecast the winner (especially in a horse race) and assign odds for or against a contestant

Difference between difficulty and handicap

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