hardness vs difficultness

difficultness vs hardness

hardness and difficultness both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hardness	Yes	No	No	No
difficultness	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, difficultness is a hypernym of hardness; that is, difficultness is a word with a broader meaning than hardness:

hardness: the quality of being difficult to do
difficultness: the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result

Other hypernyms of hardness include difficulty.

hardness (noun)	difficultness (noun)
a quality of water that contains dissolved mineral salts that prevent soap from lathering	the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result
the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale
the quality of being difficult to do
devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness
excessive sternness

Difference between hardness and difficultness

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