Pleasing vs Sociable - What's the difference?
pleasing | sociable | Related terms |
pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing."
* (Isaac Barrow)
Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
* Shakespeare
Offering opportunities for conversation; characterized by much conversation.
(archaic) Capable of being, or fit to be, united in one body or company; associable.
* Hooker
(obsolete) No longer hostile; friendly.
Pleasing is a related term of sociable.
As adjectives the difference between pleasing and sociable
is that pleasing is agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification while sociable is tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.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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*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
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(head)Anagrams
*sociable
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Adjective
(en adjective)- He's normally pretty quiet, but he gets much more sociable around women.
- Society is no comfort to one not sociable .
- a sociable party
- They are sociable parts united into one body.
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)