difficulty vs predicament

predicament vs difficulty

difficulty and predicament both are nouns.

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

As nouns, predicament is a hyponym of difficulty; that is, predicament 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
predicament: a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one

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, 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)	predicament (noun)
an effort that is inconvenient	a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
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 predicament

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