difficulty vs situation

situation vs difficulty

difficulty and situation both are nouns.

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

As nouns, situation is a hyponym of difficulty; that is, situation 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
situation: a complex or critical or unusual difficulty

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, rough sledding, strain, stress, mire, job, problem, urinary hesitancy, wall, thorniness.

difficulty (noun)	situation (noun)
an effort that is inconvenient	a job in an organization
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	physical position in relation to the surroundings
	the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
	a condition or position in which you find yourself
	a complex or critical or unusual difficulty

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