Difficulty
Difficulty noun - Something that is a cause for suffering or special effort especially in the attainment of a goal.
Needs and difficulty are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Needs" with "Difficulty", this nouns are similar.
Nearby Word: difficult
Needs
Needs adverb - Because of necessity.
Difficulty and needs are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Difficulty" instead a noun "Needs".
Both words in one sentence
- There are goals based around all the difficulty levels, so the player needs to beat songs on every difficulty level to unlock diary pages.
Source: Video Game / Voez -
An increase in difficulty by itself is NOT an example of this trope; such a difficulty spike needs to feel out of nowhere and lazily implemented for it to qualify.
Source: Square Peg, Round Trope - Every Bemani series has a tendency to introduce more difficult songs every few installments, and as such needs to either add a new difficulty rating or rewrite the entire scale.
Source: Sequel Difficulty Spike
Cite this Source
Needs and Difficulty. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/difficulty/needs
Difficulty & Needs. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/difficulty/needs>.
Needs or Difficulty. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/difficulty/needs.
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