Hypernyms for "difficulty"
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asperity
balk
baulk
bitch
booby trap
burdensomeness
check
deterrent
effortfulness
facer
fix
formidability
grimness
handicap
hard time
hardness
hardship
heaviness
hinderance
hindrance
hole
impediment
inconvenience
jam
job
kettle of fish
killer
kink
mess
mire
muddle
niceness
onerousness
oppressiveness
pickle
pinch
pisser
pitfall
plight
predicament
problem
quandary
rattrap
rigor
rigorousness
rigour
rigourousness
rough sledding
ruggedness
severeness
severity
situation
snorter
strain
stress
subtlety
the devil
toughness
trouble
troublesomeness
tsuris
urinary hesitancy
wall
worriment
wrinkle
What are hypernyms?
Hypernyms are words with a broader meaning that includes the meaning of the original word. For example, "animal" is a hypernym of "dog" because a dog is a type of animal.
Think of hypernyms as "umbrella terms" or categories that include the original word.