What is the main difference between challenging and demanding?
Challenging means present participle and gerund of challenge, while demanding means Requiring much endurance, strength, or patience..
Quick Difference
Challenging means present participle and gerund of challenge. Demanding means Requiring much endurance, strength, or patience..
Challenging Meaning
present participle and gerund of challenge.
Demanding Meaning
Requiring much endurance, strength, or patience.
Challenging vs Demanding Comparison Table
FeatureChallengingDemanding
Meaningpresent participle and gerund of challengeRequiring much endurance, strength, or patience.
Part of speechverbadjective
ExampleThere are always sincere challengings of the findings, always the objections (sincere in another sense) of those whose interests seem threatened.Near-synonyms: see Thesaurus:fastidious