Difficulty and Hardness

Difficulty

Difficulty noun - Something that is a cause for suffering or special effort especially in the attainment of a goal.

Usage example: the many difficulties that he encountered on the road from poor orphan to head of a major corporation

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Hardness and difficulty are semantically related. in complexity topic. In some cases you can use "Hardness" instead a noun "Difficulty", when it comes to topics like difficultness.

Nearby Word: difficult

Hardness

Hardness noun - Something that is a cause for suffering or special effort especially in the attainment of a goal.

Usage example: the test questions were rated for hardness, a rating of five indicating the most difficult

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Synonyms for Hardness

Antonyms for Hardness

Difficulty and hardness are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Difficulty" instead a noun "Hardness".

Nearby Words: hard, harden

Mutual synonyms

How words are described

high	high difficulty	high hardness
normal	normal difficulty	normal hardness
regular	regular difficulty	regular hardness
relative	relative difficulty	relative hardness
Other adjectives: sheer, actual, extreme, lower, inherent, new, general, impossible, adjustable, overall, varying.

Both words in one sentence

On the other hand, that's a measure of its hardness, or the difficulty of scratching it.

Source: Made of Indestructium

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