heaviness vs difficulty

difficulty vs heaviness

heaviness and difficulty both are nouns.

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

As nouns, difficulty is a hypernym of heaviness; that is, difficulty is a word with a broader meaning than heaviness:

heaviness: unwelcome burdensome difficulty
difficulty: 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 heaviness include difficultness.

heaviness (noun)	difficulty (noun)
the property of being comparatively great in weight	an effort that is inconvenient
used of a line or mark	the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result
unwelcome burdensome difficulty
an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency
persisting sadness

Difference between heaviness and difficulty

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