difficulty vs quandary

quandary vs difficulty

difficulty and quandary both are nouns.

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

As nouns, quandary is a hyponym of difficulty; that is, quandary 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
quandary: 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, predicament, 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)	quandary (noun)
an effort that is inconvenient	state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one

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