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Engrossing vs Pleasing - What's the difference?

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Engrossing is a related term of pleasing.


As verbs the difference between engrossing and pleasing

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

As adjectives the difference between engrossing and pleasing

is that engrossing is utterly consuming one's time and attention while pleasing is agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.

As nouns the difference between engrossing and pleasing

is that engrossing is the act of one who engrosses, or buys up wholesale while pleasing is pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing".

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.

    • pleasing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.

    • Synonyms

    *

    Noun

  • pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing."
  • * (Isaac Barrow)
    • 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

    Related terms

    * pleasant * pleasantly * satisfaction

    Verb

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