wrinkle vs difficulty

difficulty vs wrinkle

wrinkle and difficulty both are nouns.

wrinkle is a verb but difficulty is not a verb.

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

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

wrinkle: a minor 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 wrinkle include difficultness.

wrinkle (noun)	difficulty (noun)
a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)	an effort that is inconvenient
a minor difficulty	the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result
a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface

wrinkle (verb)	difficulty (verb)
become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic
gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker
make wrinkled or creased

Difference between wrinkle and difficulty

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