difficulty vs hardness

hardness vs difficulty

difficulty and hardness both are nouns.

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

As nouns, hardness is a hyponym of difficulty; that is, hardness 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
hardness: the quality of being difficult to do

Other hyponyms of difficulty include effortfulness, asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, 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)	hardness (noun)
an effort that is inconvenient	a quality of water that contains dissolved mineral salts that prevent soap from lathering
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale
	the quality of being difficult to do
	devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness
	excessive sternness

Difference between difficulty and hardness

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