difficulty vs mess

mess vs difficulty

difficulty and mess both are nouns.

difficulty is not a verb while mess is a verb.

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

As nouns, mess is a hyponym of difficulty; that is, mess 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
mess: 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, jam, kettle of fish, muddle, pickle, hard time, rough sledding, strain, stress, mire, job, problem, situation, urinary hesitancy, wall, thorniness.

difficulty (noun)	mess (noun)
an effort that is inconvenient	a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel
	soft semiliquid food
	(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
	a state of confusion and disorderliness
	informal terms for a difficult situation

difficulty (verb)	mess (verb)
	make a mess of or create disorder in
	eat in a mess hall

Difference between difficulty and mess

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