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Hardship vs Challenging - What's the difference?

hardship | challenging |

As nouns the difference between hardship and challenging

is that hardship is (countable or uncountable) difficulty or trouble; hard times while challenging is the act of making a challenge.

As a verb challenging is

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As an adjective challenging is

difficult, hard to do.

hardship

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (countable or uncountable) Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
    • He has survived periods of financial hardship before.

    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