toughness vs difficulty
difficulty vs toughnesstoughness and difficulty both are nouns.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| toughness | Yes | No | No | No |
| difficulty | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
difficulty is a hypernym of
toughness; that is, difficulty is a
word with a broader meaning than toughness:
- toughness: impressive 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 toughness include
difficultness.
| toughness (noun) | difficulty (noun) |
|---|---|
| the property of being big and strong | an effort that is inconvenient |
| enduring strength and energy | the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result |
| impressive difficulty | |
| the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking |
Words related to "toughness"
Words related to "difficulty"
- asperity
- balk
- baulk
- bitch
- booby trap
- burdensomeness
- check
- deterrent
- difficult
- difficultness
- ease
- effort
- effortfulness
- elbow grease
- exertion
- facer
- fix
- formidability
- grimness
- handicap
- hard
- hard time
- hardness
- hardship
- heaviness
- hinderance
- hindrance
- hole
- impediment
- inconvenience
- jam
- job
- kettle of fish
- killer
- kink
- mess
- mire
- muddle
- niceness
- onerousness
- oppressiveness
- pickle
- pinch
- pisser
- pitfall
- plight
- predicament
- problem
- quality
- quandary
- rattrap
- rigor
- rigorousness
- rigour
- rigourousness
- rough sledding
- ruggedness
- severeness
- severity
- situation
- snorter
- strain
- stress
- subtlety
- sweat
- the devil
- thorniness
- toughness
- travail
- trouble
- troublesomeness
- tsuris
- urinary hesitancy
- wall
- worriment
- wrinkle
© WordCmp.com 2024,
CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.