difficulty vs hinderance

hinderance vs difficulty

difficulty and hinderance both are nouns.

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

As nouns, hinderance is a hyponym of difficulty; that is, hinderance 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
hinderance: 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, handicap, 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)	hinderance (noun)
an effort that is inconvenient	the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
	something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress

Difference between difficulty and hinderance

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