Difficulty and Meanness

Difficulty

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

Meanness and difficulty are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Meanness" instead a noun "Difficulty".

Nearby Word: difficult

Meanness

Meanness noun - The desire to cause pain for the satisfaction of doing harm.

Difficulty and meanness are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Difficulty" instead a noun "Meanness".

Nearby Words: mean, meanly

How words are described

sheer sheer difficulty sheer meanness
actual actual difficulty actual meanness
real real difficulty real meanness
inherent inherent difficulty inherent meanness
Other adjectives: general, extra, overall, varying.
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