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Pleasing vs Suavity - What's the difference?

pleasing | suavity |

As nouns the difference between pleasing and suavity

is that pleasing is pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing. while suavity is sweetness to the taste.

As an adjective pleasing

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

As a verb pleasing

is present participle of lang=en.

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

    Verb

    (head)
  • Anagrams

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    suavity

    English

    Noun

    (suavities)
  • (obsolete) Sweetness to the taste.
  • The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; softness; smoothness; pleasantness; gentleness; urbanity; as, suavity of manners; suavity of language, conversation, or address.
  • *1881 , :
  • [...] nothing, not even the crude curves of the railway, can utterly deform the suavity of contour of one bay after another along the whole reach of the Riviera.
    ..names full of legendary suavity and interest..

    See also

    * suaveness * blandness

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