difficulty vs heaviness

heaviness vs difficulty

difficulty and heaviness both are nouns.

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

As nouns, heaviness is a hyponym of difficulty; that is, heaviness 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
heaviness: unwelcome burdensome difficulty

Other hyponyms of difficulty include effortfulness, asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, hardness, ruggedness, formidability, toughness, burdensomeness, 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)	heaviness (noun)
an effort that is inconvenient	the property of being comparatively great in weight
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	used of a line or mark
	unwelcome burdensome difficulty
	an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency
	persisting sadness

Difference between difficulty and heaviness

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