Difficulty and Simplicity

Difficulty

Difficulty noun - The quality of being difficult.
Usage example: they agreed about the difficulty of the climb

Simplicity is an antonym for difficulty.

Nearby Word: difficult

Simplicity

Simplicity noun - Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.

Difficulty is an antonym for simplicity in topics: straightforwardness, absence of complication.

Nearby Words: simple, simplify, simplistic

How words are described

relative relative difficulty relative simplicity
sheer sheer difficulty sheer simplicity
extreme extreme difficulty extreme simplicity
inherent inherent difficulty inherent simplicity
Other adjectives: incredible, general, ridiculous, greater, overall, harder.
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