noun
the quality of being difficult
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they agreed about the difficulty of the climb
• Syn: ↑difficulty
• Ant: ↑ease (for: ↑difficulty)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑difficult
• Hypernyms: ↑quality
• Hyponyms:
↑effortfulness, ↑asperity, ↑grimness, ↑hardship, ↑rigor, ↑rigour, ↑severity, ↑severeness, ↑rigorousness, ↑rigourousness, ↑hardness, ↑ruggedness, ↑formidability, ↑toughness, ↑burdensomeness, ↑heaviness, ↑onerousness, ↑oppressiveness, ↑subtlety, ↑niceness, ↑troublesomeness, ↑inconvenience, ↑worriment
Useful english dictionary. 2012.