difficulty (n)
difficultness (n)

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type n
lex_filenum 07
def the quality of being difficult
examples they agreed about the difficulty of the climb
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Hypernym quality
Derivationally related form difficultness → difficult
Antonym difficulty → ease
Attribute difficult, hard
Hyponym effortfulness; asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness; hardness, ruggedness; formidability, toughness; burdensomeness, heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness; subtlety, niceness; troublesomeness, inconvenience, worriment
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Attribute difficult, hard
Derivationally related form difficult → difficultness
Antonym ease → difficulty
Hypernym effortfulness; asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness; hardness, ruggedness; formidability, toughness; burdensomeness, heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness; subtlety, niceness; troublesomeness, inconvenience, worriment
Hyponym quality

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