difficultness
- noun
- /ˈdɪfɪkəlt.nəs/
:
dificultad
- The difficultness of the exam surprised all the students.
Examples
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Among girls, maternal hostile child-rearing attitudes, role dissatisfaction, and perceived temperamental difficultness of the child were all significant predictors of self-esteem in adolescence.
Academic text (2003) -
High activity and low sociability are less accepted in girls than in boys (Block, 1983), and this may explain why temperamental difficultness predicted low self-esteem among girls only.
Academic text (2003) -
She seems to relish her difficultness, much like a small child.
Fiction book (2000) -
Children often face difficultness when trying to understand complex math problems.
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She described the difficultness of learning a new language as frustrating but rewarding.
Synonyms
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2.4
A hard part of a task that needs extra effort or is not easy to understand
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3.5
A situation or task that is hard to deal with
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5.4
Being difficult to deal with and needing skill or care
How difficult something is to do or understand
A lot of hard work needed to do a task
The state of having many connected parts that are hard to understand
A quality that makes something hard to understand or solve
The quality of being very difficult to understand because it is complex
You cannot easily understand or picture it in your mind
A state of being very hard and unpleasant to deal with
A quality that makes something difficult or causes extra work
The quality of being very difficult to manage or control
Antonyms
How Difficult
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Difficultness comes from the adjective difficult, which itself uses the parts dis- meaning 'not' and facilis meaning 'easy'. So, difficultness simply means the state of being 'not easy' — in other words, how hard something is or how much trouble it gives you.