difficulty vs onerousness

onerousness vs difficulty

difficulty and onerousness both are nouns.

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

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

Other hyponyms of difficulty include effortfulness, asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, hardness, ruggedness, formidability, toughness, burdensomeness, heaviness, 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)	onerousness (noun)
an effort that is inconvenient	unwelcome burdensome difficulty
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result

Difference between difficulty and onerousness

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