[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

difficulty \dif"ficulty\, n.; pl. difficulties. l.
   difficultas, fr. difficilis difficult; dif- = dis- + facilis
   easy: cf. f. difficult'e. see facile.
   1. the state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness;
      arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as,
      the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of
      difficulty.
      1913 webster

            not being able to promote them the interests of
            life on account of the difficulty of the region.
                                                  --james byrne.
      1913 webster

   2. something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand;
      that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires
      skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a
      hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the
      difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology.
      1913 webster

            they lie under some difficulties by reason of the
            emperor's displeasure.                --addison.
      1913 webster

   3. a controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an
      objection; a cavil.
      1913 webster

            measures for terminating all local difficulties.
                                                  --bancroft.
      1913 webster

   4. embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; --
      usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties.
      1913 webster

            in days of difficulty and pressure.   --tennyson.

   syn: impediment; obstacle; obstruction; embarrassment;
        perplexity; exigency; distress; trouble; trial;
        objection; cavil. see impediment.
        1913 webster
see also:
difficulties facile easiness facility impediment 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

difficulty
     n 1: 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"
          syn: trouble
     2: 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"
     3: 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"
     4: the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the
        difficulty of the climb" syn: difficultness ant: ease
see also:
trouble difficultness ease 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

168 moby thesaurus words for "difficulty":
   gordian knot, abstruseness, adverse circumstances, adversity,
   affliction, aggravation, agreement to disagree, altercation,
   annoyance, arduousness, asperity, bad news, bedevilment, beef,
   bickering, blight, block, blockade, bore, bother, botheration,
   bothersomeness, bottleneck, bummer, burden, burthen, care, cargo,
   catch, challenge, charge, complexity, complication, controversy,
   cordon, crabbedness, crampedness, crashing bore, cross,
   cross-purposes, cumbrance, curse, curtain, deadweight, deepness,
   demurral, demurrer, determent, deterrent, devilment, difference,
   difference of opinion, difficulties, dilemma, disadvantage,
   disagreement, disparity, dispute, distress, dividedness, division,
   dogging, downer, drag, drawback, embarrassment, emergency,
   encumbrance, esoterica, exasperation, exigency, falling-out, fight,
   fix, formidableness, freight, hamper, handicap, hang-up,
   harassment, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hardcase, hardness,
   hardship, harrying, hassle, hazard, headache, heavy sledding,
   hindrance, hitch, hot water, hounding, hurdle, impediment,
   impedimenta, imposition, inconvenience, intricacy, irritation, jam,
   joker, knottiness, laboriousness, load, lumber, mess,
   misunderstanding, molestation, nuisance, objection, obstacle,
   obstruction, obstructive, odds, one small difficulty, onus, pack,
   painfulness, pass, penalty, persecution, pest, pickle, pinch,
   pitfall, plight, polarization, predicament, pressure, problem,
   profoundness, profundity, protest, quandary, question,
   reconditeness, remonstrance, remonstration, rigor, rub, scrape,
   sea of troubles, snag, squabble, strain, strait, straits, stress,
   stress of life, stumbling block, stumbling stone, trial,
   tribulation, trouble, troubles, vale of tears, variance, vexation,
   vexatiousness, vicissitude, vigor, weight, white elephant,
   worriment, worry

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