inconvenience vs difficulty

difficulty vs inconvenience

inconvenience and difficulty both are nouns.

inconvenience is a verb but difficulty is not a verb.

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

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

inconvenience: a difficulty that causes anxiety
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 inconvenience include difficultness.

inconvenience (noun)	difficulty (noun)
the quality of not being useful or convenient	an effort that is inconvenient
a difficulty that causes anxiety	the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result
an inconvenient discomfort

inconvenience (verb)	difficulty (verb)
to cause inconvenience or discomfort to

Difference between inconvenience and difficulty

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