difficulty vs oppressiveness

oppressiveness vs difficulty

difficulty and oppressiveness both are nouns.

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

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

Other hyponyms of difficulty include effortfulness, asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, hardness, ruggedness, formidability, toughness, burdensomeness, heaviness, onerousness, 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)	oppressiveness (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	a feeling of being oppressed

Difference between difficulty and oppressiveness

Words related to "oppressiveness"

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