difficulty
noun
[ ˈdɪfɪk(ə)lti ]
• the state or condition of being difficult.
• "Guy had no difficulty in making friends"
Similar:
strain,
struggling,
awkwardness,
trouble,
toil,
labour,
laboriousness,
strenuousness,
arduousness,
pains,
problems,
trials and tribulations,
hassle,
stress,
dolour,
travails,
complexity,
complicatedness,
intricacy,
perplexity,
knottiness,
difficultness,
trickiness,
hardness,
obscurity,
abstruseness,
Origin:
late Middle English (in the senses ‘requiring effort or skill’ and ‘something difficult’): from Latin difficultas, from dis- (expressing reversal) + facultas ‘ability, opportunity’.
