Pleasing vs Blissful - What's the difference?
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pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing."
* (Isaac Barrow)
Extremely happy; full of joy; experiencing, indicating, causing, or characterized by bliss.
* 1738 , , "London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal", lines 25-26,
* 1868 , , Little Women , ch. 27,
* 1983 , James Hijiya, "American Gravestones and Attitudes toward Death: A Brief History," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society , vol. 127, no. 5., page 349,
(obsolete) Blessed; glorified.
* c1387 , , "The Prioress' Tale," in The Canterbury Tales ,
Pleasing is a related term of blissful.
As adjectives the difference between pleasing and blissful
is that pleasing is agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification while blissful is extremely happy; full of joy; experiencing, indicating, causing, or characterized by bliss.As a noun pleasing
is pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing".As a verb pleasing
is .pleasing
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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
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*blissful
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Alternative forms
* blissfull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- In pleasing dreams the blissful age renew,
- And call Britannia's glories back to view;
- She ... led a blissful life, unconscious of want, care, or bad weather, while she sat safe and happy in an imaginary world.
- New England carvers between the 1720s and the 1750s transformed, step by step, the winged skull into the winged face, adding flesh to bare bone and turning the toothy grin of death into the blissful smile of a saved soul.
- Thus had this widow her little son y-taught
- Our blissful Lady, Christe's mother dear,
- To worship aye