difficulty vs jam

jam vs difficulty

difficulty and jam both are nouns.

difficulty is not a verb while jam is a verb.

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

As nouns, jam is a hyponym of difficulty; that is, jam 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
jam: informal terms for a difficult situation

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, hinderance, hindrance, impediment, wrinkle, bitch, plight, predicament, quandary, rattrap, pinch, fix, hole, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle, hard time, rough sledding, strain, stress, mire, job, problem, situation, urinary hesitancy, wall, thorniness.

difficulty (noun)	jam (noun)
an effort that is inconvenient	deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	preserve of crushed fruit
	a dense crowd of people
	informal terms for a difficult situation

difficulty (verb)	jam (verb)
	interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
	crowd or pack to capacity
	get stuck and immobilized
	block passage through
	crush or bruise
	press tightly together or cram
	push down forcibly

Difference between difficulty and jam

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