Schwierigkeit

Meaning

1. (feminine) difficulty, problem
2. (feminine,in-plural) trouble, difficulty, hardships, complications (NOTE: when in the plural, this word can retain a singular English abstract meaning)

Concepts

difficulty

trouble

problem

hassle

snag

severity

obstacle

inconvenience

intricacy

arduousness

impediment

affliction

complexity

hitch

toughness

one danger

one difficulty

complication

conflict

discord

troubles

emergency

out of order

accident

break-down

failure

fault

distress

hindrance

defect

hardships

relative difficulty

abstruse

difficult to understand

unintelligible

barrier

hardship

suffering

retardation

hard nut to crack

hard problem

person hard to please

harm

impropriety

inexpedience

wrongdoing

complex

complicated

attention

care

burden

separation from the world

evil influence

implication

involvement

constraint

challenge

complicacy

scabrousness

scrape

find it hard

have a hard time

ennui

catch

hiccup

kink

pain

illnes

difficult time

bother

nuisance

obstruction

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʃviːʁɪçkaɪ̯t/

Etymology

From Late Middle High German swǣrecheit, equivalent of schwierig + -keit.