Difficultness

Dif´fi`cult`ness

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Difficulty.

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difficultness - the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb" difficulty effortfulness - the quality of requiring deliberate effort asperity, rigor, rigorousness, rigourousness, severeness, severity, rigour, grimness, hardship - something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" ruggedness, hardness - the quality of being difficult to do; "he assigned a series of problems of increasing hardness"; "the ruggedness of his exams caused half the class to fail" formidability, toughness - impressive difficulty burdensomeness, onerousness, oppressiveness, heaviness - unwelcome burdensome difficulty subtlety, niceness - the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze; "you had to admire the subtlety of the distinctions he drew" troublesomeness, worriment, inconvenience - a difficulty that causes anxiety quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare