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Taxing vs Stressful - What's the difference?

taxing | stressful |

As adjectives the difference between taxing and stressful

is that taxing is with respect to an experience: exhausting; draining while stressful is irritating; causing stress.

As a verb taxing

is .

As a noun taxing

is the act of imposing a tax.

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

    stressful

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Irritating; causing stress.
    • I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change. –Richard Nelson Bolles

    Related terms

    * stress