difficulty vs rough sledding

rough sledding vs difficulty

difficulty and rough sledding both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
difficulty	Yes	No	No	No
rough sledding	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, rough sledding is a hyponym of difficulty; that is, rough sledding 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
rough sledding: a difficulty that can be overcome with effort

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, quandary, rattrap, pinch, fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle, hard time, strain, stress, mire, job, problem, situation, urinary hesitancy, wall, thorniness.

difficulty (noun)	rough sledding (noun)
an effort that is inconvenient	a difficulty that can be overcome with effort
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 rough sledding

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