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DIFFICULTNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does difficultness mean? 

DIFFICULTNESS (noun)
  The noun DIFFICULTNESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being difficultplay

  Familiarity information: DIFFICULTNESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DIFFICULTNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being difficult

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

difficultness; difficulty

Context example:

they agreed about the difficulty of the climb

Hypernyms ("difficultness" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Attribute:

difficult; hard (not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "difficultness"):

effortfulness (the quality of requiring deliberate effort)

asperity; grimness; hardship; rigor; rigorousness; rigour; rigourousness; severeness; severity (something hard to endure)

hardness; ruggedness (the quality of being difficult to do)

formidability; toughness (impressive difficulty)

burdensomeness; heaviness; onerousness; oppressiveness (unwelcome burdensome difficulty)

niceness; subtlety (the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze)

inconvenience; troublesomeness; worriment (a difficulty that causes anxiety)

Derivation:

difficult (not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure)


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