hinderance vs difficultness

difficultness vs hinderance

hinderance and difficultness both are nouns.

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

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

hinderance: something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
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 hinderance include difficulty.

hinderance (noun)	difficultness (noun)
the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding	the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result
any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress

Difference between hinderance and difficultness

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