Difference between Fact-finding and Inquiring

Fact-finding

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Designed to determine factual information; investigative

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The determination of factual information

Inquiring

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To ask (about something).

Example sentence: Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.