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Engrossing vs Appealing - What's the difference?

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Engrossing is a related term of appealing.


As verbs the difference between engrossing and appealing

is that engrossing is present participle of engross while appealing is .

As adjectives the difference between engrossing and appealing

is that engrossing is utterly consuming one's time and attention while appealing is having appeal; attractive.

As nouns the difference between engrossing and appealing

is that engrossing is the act of one who engrosses, or buys up wholesale while appealing is the act of making an appeal.

engrossing

English

Verb

(head)
  • Present participle of engross

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Utterly consuming one's time and attention.
    • an engrossing documentary

    Synonyms

    * absorbing * fascinating

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who engrosses, or buys up wholesale.

    • appealing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having appeal; attractive.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Michael Riordan , title=Tackling Infinity , volume=100, issue=1, page=86 , magazine= citation , passage=Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.}}
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012
    • , date=September 7 , author=Dominic Fifield , title=England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova , work=The Guardian citation , page= , passage=Those were all landmark moments to cherish. Just as appealing was the manner in which Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Milner cut swathes down either flank, albeit through flustered full-backs who had looked poorly positioned and horribly jittery from the start. }}

    Derived terms

    * appealingly

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making an appeal.
  • * 1866 , Heros von Borcke, Memoirs of the Confederate War for independence
    • The fair creature abandoned her position, and in the midst of her bitter tears and pathetic appealings , which my sense of duty alone enabled me to resist, I bore my prisoner off.

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