difficulty vs severeness

severeness vs difficulty

difficulty and severeness both are nouns.

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

As nouns, severeness is a hyponym of difficulty; that is, severeness 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
severeness: something hard to endure

Other hyponyms of difficulty include effortfulness, asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, 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)	severeness (noun)
an effort that is inconvenient	extreme plainness
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	excessive sternness
	something hard to endure
	used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather

Difference between difficulty and severeness

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