difficulty vs toughness

toughness vs difficulty

difficulty and toughness both are nouns.

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

As nouns, toughness is a hyponym of difficulty; that is, toughness 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
toughness: impressive difficulty

Other hyponyms of difficulty include effortfulness, asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, hardness, ruggedness, formidability, 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)	toughness (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	enduring strength and energy
	impressive difficulty
	the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking

Difference between difficulty and toughness

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