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Definition of Difficultness
1. Noun. The quality of being difficult. "They agreed about the difficulty of the climb"
Specialized synonyms: Effortfulness, Asperity, Grimness, Hardship, Rigor, Rigorousness, Rigour, Rigourousness, Severeness, Severity, Hardness, Ruggedness, Formidability, Toughness, Burdensomeness, Heaviness, Onerousness, Oppressiveness, Niceness, Subtlety, Inconvenience, Troublesomeness, Worriment
Generic synonyms: Quality
Attributes: Difficult, Hard
Derivative terms: Difficult
Antonyms: Ease
Definition of Difficultness
1. n. Difficulty.
Definition of Difficultness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being difficult. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Difficultness
Literary usage of Difficultness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Educational Psychology by American Psychological Association (1915)
"The Point Scale consists of twenty tests, many of which include several parts,
arranged in what appeared to be the order of increasing difficultness. ..."
2. A Point scale for measuring mental ability by Robert Mearns Yerkes, James Winfred Bridges (1915)
"The data of table 32 enable us not only to judge of the relative difficultness
of the tests for the ages from four to fifteen, inclusive, ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"From these observations, it was possible to deduce the following law for the
behavior of the dancing mouse: As the difficultness of visual discrimination ..."
4. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1907)
"... call for more reasoning power than the high school boy or girl has developed
and thus become thoroughly repellent by reason of its real difficultness. ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Problems varying in difficultness from the extremely simple and easy to those
practically insoluble by human beings can be presented by means of the ..."
6. Behavior: An Introduction to Comparative Psychology by John Broadus Watson (1914)
"Yerkes has stated the general law as follows: " As difficultness of visual
discrimination increases, that strength of electrical stimulus which is most ..."
7. The English Familiar Essay: Representative Texts by William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane (1916)
"The difficultness in princes' business are many times great; but the greatest
difficulty is often in their own mind. For it is common with princes (saith ..."
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