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Pleasing vs Alluring - What's the difference?

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Pleasing is a related term of alluring.


As adjectives the difference between pleasing and alluring

is that pleasing is agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification while alluring is having the power to allure.

As nouns the difference between pleasing and alluring

is that pleasing is pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing" while alluring is the action of the verb allure .

As verbs the difference between pleasing and alluring

is that pleasing is while alluring is .

pleasing

English

Adjective

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

    • Synonyms

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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

    Related terms

    * pleasant * pleasantly * satisfaction

    Verb

    (head)

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    alluring

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb allure .

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the power to allure.
  • *
    • Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile?; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.