English > difficultness: 1 sense > noun 1, attribute| Meaning | The quality of being difficult. |
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| Synonym | difficulty |
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| Attributes | difficult, hard | not easy |
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| Narrower | asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness | Something hard to endure |
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| burdensomeness, heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness | unwelcome burdensome difficulty |
| effortfulness | The quality of requiring deliberate effort |
| formidability, toughness | impressive difficulty |
| hardness, ruggedness | The quality of being difficult to do |
| subtlety, niceness | The quality of being difficult to detect or analyze |
| troublesomeness, inconvenience, worriment | A difficulty that causes anxiety |
| Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
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| Opposite | ease, easiness, simplicity, simpleness | freedom from difficulty / difficulty or hardship / hardship or effort |
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| Spanish | dificultad |
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| Catalan | dificultat |
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| Adjectives | difficult | not easy |
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