difficulty vs ruggedness

ruggedness vs difficulty

difficulty and ruggedness both are nouns.

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

As nouns, ruggedness is a hyponym of difficulty; that is, ruggedness 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
ruggedness: the quality of being difficult to do

Other hyponyms of difficulty include effortfulness, asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, hardness, 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)	ruggedness (noun)
an effort that is inconvenient	the property of being big and strong
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 topologically uneven
	the quality of being difficult to do

Difference between difficulty and ruggedness

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