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Strenuous vs Taxing - What's the difference?

strenuous | taxing |

As adjectives the difference between strenuous and taxing

is that strenuous is urgent, ardent, zealous while taxing is with respect to an experience: exhausting; draining.

As a verb taxing is

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As a noun taxing is

the act of imposing a tax.

strenuous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Urgent, ardent, zealous.
  • Requiring great exertion.
  • * 1961 : J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the ''Sophistês'' of Plato . In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467.
    • We can achieve this god?likeness only by unremitting and strenuous effort of the intellect.

    Synonyms

    * earnest * eager * vigorous * determined * resolute

    Derived terms

    * strenuously * strenuousness

    Related terms

    * strenuosity

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    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