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Entertaining vs Pleasing - What's the difference?

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Entertaining is a related term of pleasing.


As adjectives the difference between entertaining and pleasing

is that entertaining is very amusing; that entertains while pleasing is agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.

As verbs the difference between entertaining and pleasing

is that entertaining is while pleasing is .

As nouns the difference between entertaining and pleasing

is that entertaining is (archaic) entertainment while pleasing is pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing".

entertaining

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Very amusing; that entertains.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil Dawkes , title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Sunderland came back from two goals down to earn a point from an entertaining encounter with West Brom.}}

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) entertainment
  • * 1889 , George Herbert Curteis, Bishop Selwyn of New Zealand, and of Lichfield
  • As soon as the festival was over, and the usual routine of summer entertainings and meetings had been got through, the Bishop and Mrs. Selwyn, accompanied by their large family party and some friends, started for a quiet holiday

    pleasing

    English

    Adjective

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

    Verb

    (head)
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