Difficulty

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.

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.

A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil.

Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; -- usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties.

the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb"

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"