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difficulty vs rigour

rigour vs difficulty

difficulty and rigour both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
difficulty Yes No No No
rigour Yes No No No
As nouns, rigour is a hyponym of difficulty; that is, rigour 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
  • rigour: something hard to endure
Other hyponyms of difficulty include effortfulness, asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, 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, mess, muddle, pickle, hard time, rough sledding, strain, stress, mire, job, problem, situation, urinary hesitancy, wall, thorniness.
difficulty (noun) rigour (noun)
an effort that is inconvenient something hard to endure
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result the quality of being valid and rigorous
excessive sternness
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