difficulty vs inconvenience

inconvenience vs difficulty

difficulty and inconvenience both are nouns.

difficulty is not a verb while inconvenience is a verb.

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

As nouns, inconvenience is a hyponym of difficulty; that is, inconvenience 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
inconvenience: a difficulty that causes anxiety

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, 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)	inconvenience (noun)
an effort that is inconvenient	the quality of not being useful or convenient
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	a difficulty that causes anxiety
	an inconvenient discomfort

difficulty (verb)	inconvenience (verb)
	to cause inconvenience or discomfort to

Difference between difficulty and inconvenience

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