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Challenging vs Taxing - What's the difference?

challenging | taxing |

As verbs the difference between challenging and taxing

is that challenging is present participle of lang=en while taxing is present participle of lang=en.

As adjectives the difference between challenging and taxing

is that challenging is difficult, hard to do while taxing is with respect to an experience: exhausting; draining.

As nouns the difference between challenging and taxing

is that challenging is the act of making a challenge while taxing is the act of imposing a tax.

challenging

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Difficult, hard to do.

    • Antonyms

    * unchallenging

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making a challenge.
  • * Estcourt Rowland Metzner, The conflict of tax laws (page 151)
    • There are always sincere challengings of the findings, always the objections (sincere in another sense) of those whose interests seem threatened.

    See also

    * challenge

    taxing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • With respect to an experience: exhausting; draining.
  • Mentally challenging; difficult.
    • a taxing problem

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of imposing a tax.
  • * (Horace Binney)
    • Subscriptions, borrowings of money, taxings of the citizens and their property, may all be valid, as operations by virtue of laws for the government of the City