Affable vs Pleasing - What's the difference?
affable | pleasing | Related terms |
Receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; friendly, courteous, sociable.
* 1912 : James Burrill Angell, , chapter ix "Mission To The Ottoman Empire"
Mild; benign.
* 1998 : Alexia Maria Kosmider, Tricky Tribal Discourse , page 84
pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing."
* (Isaac Barrow)
Affable is a related term of pleasing.
As adjectives the difference between affable and pleasing
is that affable is receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; friendly, courteous, sociable while pleasing is agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.As a noun pleasing is
pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing".As a verb pleasing is
.affable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Furthermore, I may say, that the Sultan was always most affable to me in my interviews with him, even when I had to discuss some missionary questions. In fact, I never saw any traces of the difficulties which Mr. Terrell reported.
- During more affable weather, the four friends congregate outside, sometimes leaning their hickory chairs against a "catapa" tree...
Synonyms
* accessible, civil, complaisant, courteous, friendly, gracious * benign, mild, warmDerived terms
* affability * affableness * affablypleasing
English
Synonyms
*Noun
- What more palpable confutation can there be of human vanity and arrogance, of all lofty imaginations, all presumptuous confidences, all turgid humours, all fond self-pleasings and self-admirings, than is that tragical cross
