What part of speech is difficulty?

Difficulty can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

Inflections

Noun

What does difficulty mean?

Definitions

Noun

difficulty - a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome; "grappling with financial difficulties"
difficulty - the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb"
difficulty - a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result; "serious difficulties were encountered in obtaining a pure reagent"
difficulty - an effort that is inconvenient; "I went to a lot of trouble"; "he won without any trouble"; "had difficulty walking"; "finished the test only with great difficulty"

Examples of difficulty

#   Sentence  
1. noun They agreed about the difficulty of the climb.
2. noun Had difficulty walking.
3. noun Finished the test only with great difficulty.
4. noun According to former Indian army general A S Kalkat, the difficulty for Kumaratunga's government lay in the fact that the LTTE had become a de jure power in the north and east of the island and was running every aspect of civil administration in the areas within its control.
5. noun The difficulty lies in the fact that the confirmation system reads the counterparty's name from Global Counterparty.
6. noun The change in law provision reads a bit differently from the long form -- the thinking here is that the long form language is very lengthy and rather harsh (and we've had great difficulty selling it in the past).
7. noun Perfect for those with difficulty swallowing tablets or capsules.
8. noun It led me to believe that the reviewers simply had difficulty tolerating people with strongly-accented English.
9. noun Same clerk had considerable difficulty taking down a number.
10. noun the only down fall of this pho house is the difficulty in finding parking in chinatown.
11. noun I understand not wanting to put labels like 5.10 on an indoor course, because yes, it is not the same, but some clear understanding of the difficulty of one course to another is nice when you are an intermediate climber looking to improve.
12. noun Sometimes he has difficulty being articulate about his views.
13. noun I think you'll have very little difficulty in getting a driver's license.
14. noun You'll have some difficulty in carrying out the plan.
15. noun It helps us in times of difficulty.
Sentence  
noun
They agreed about the difficulty of the climb.
Had difficulty walking.
Finished the test only with great difficulty.
According to former Indian army general A S Kalkat, the difficulty for Kumaratunga's government lay in the fact that the LTTE had become a de jure power in the north and east of the island and was running every aspect of civil administration in the areas within its control.
The difficulty lies in the fact that the confirmation system reads the counterparty's name from Global Counterparty.
The change in law provision reads a bit differently from the long form -- the thinking here is that the long form language is very lengthy and rather harsh (and we've had great difficulty selling it in the past).
Perfect for those with difficulty swallowing tablets or capsules.
It led me to believe that the reviewers simply had difficulty tolerating people with strongly-accented English.
Same clerk had considerable difficulty taking down a number.
the only down fall of this pho house is the difficulty in finding parking in chinatown.
I understand not wanting to put labels like 5.10 on an indoor course, because yes, it is not the same, but some clear understanding of the difficulty of one course to another is nice when you are an intermediate climber looking to improve.
Sometimes he has difficulty being articulate about his views.
I think you'll have very little difficulty in getting a driver's license.
You'll have some difficulty in carrying out the plan.
It helps us in times of difficulty.

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