difficultness

Definitions of difficultness
  1. noun
    the quality of being difficult
    synonyms: difficulty
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    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
    arduousness, strenuousness
    extreme effortfulness
    laboriousness, operoseness, toilsomeness
    the quality of requiring extended effort
    sternness
    the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding
    awkwardness, cumbersomeness, unwieldiness
    trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape
    flea bite
    a very minor inconvenience
    fly in the ointment
    an inconvenience that detracts from the usefulness of something
    unwieldiness
    the quality of being difficult to direct or control by reason of complexity
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    quality
    an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
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