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  • noun rare Difficulty.

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  • noun The state or quality of being difficult.

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  • noun the quality of being difficult

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Examples

  • The cause was her diva-like difficultness on the set and the producers weren't buying it.

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  • The cause was her diva-like difficultness on the set and the producers weren't buying it.

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  • That if it's difficult, she won't deal with the difficultness, and just gives up.

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  • It would not be fair to say that the mouse temporarily ceased to profit by its experience; instead it profited even more than usually, in all probability, but the unavoidably abrupt increase in the difficultness of the tests was just sufficient to hide the improvement.

    The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior Robert M. Yerkes 1916

  • The passion for intricate and far-sought metaphor which had possessed Donne was accompanied in his work and even more in that of his followers with a passion for what was elusive and recondite in thought and emotion and with an increasing habit of rudeness and wilful difficultness in language and versification.

    English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge G. H. Mair 1906

  • Asbestos claims eupneic difficultness is the basic symptom of asbestosis mesothelioma and the persons who are earnestly purulent hawthorn beautify victims of come respiratory insolvency.

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  • The article fails to clearly illustrate one of the more potentially confusing (or muchly difficultness) uses of the apostrophe which arose often in the Bible - that which attached itself (as a posessive) after Jesus 'name.

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  • My parents 'rudimentary concern about the environment is regularly challenged by difficultness - at 63, it's tough for them to battle through 19 different Dorset council recycling receptacles.

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  • My parents 'rudimentary concern about the environment is regularly challenged by difficultness - at 63, it's tough for them to battle through 19 different Dorset council recycling receptacles.

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