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Pleasing vs Pleasingness - What's the difference?

pleasing | pleasingness |

As nouns the difference between pleasing and pleasingness

is that pleasing is pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing" while pleasingness is the quality or state of being pleasing.

As an adjective pleasing

is agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.

As a verb pleasing

is .

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

    Related terms

    * pleasant * pleasantly * satisfaction

    Verb

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    pleasingness

    English

    Noun

  • The quality or state of being pleasing.

    • See also

    * pleasantness * pleasurability * pleasure

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