difficulty vs thorniness

thorniness vs difficulty

difficulty and thorniness both are nouns.

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

As nouns, thorniness is a hyponym of difficulty; that is, thorniness 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
thorniness: The property of being full of difficulties, complexities, or controversial points.

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, situation, urinary hesitancy, wall.

difficulty (noun)	thorniness (noun)
an effort that is inconvenient	the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	a rough and bitter manner
	The property of being full of difficulties, complexities, or controversial points.

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