Pleasure vs Pleasing - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) A state of being pleased.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 22, author=Sam Sheringham, work=BBC Sport
, title= (countable) A person, thing or action that causes enjoyment.
* Bible, (w) xxv. 9
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, title= (uncountable) One's preference.
(formal, uncountable) The will or desire of someone or some agency in power.
* Bible, (w) xlviii. 14
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
To give or afford pleasure to; to please; to gratify.
* Tennyson
to give pleasure (especially sexual pleasure) to
(dated) To take pleasure; to seek or pursue pleasure.
pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing."
* (Isaac Barrow)
As nouns the difference between pleasure and pleasing
is that pleasure is a state of being pleased while pleasing is pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing..As verbs the difference between pleasure and pleasing
is that pleasure is to give or afford pleasure to; to please; to gratify while pleasing is present participle of lang=en.As an interjection pleasure
is pleased to meet you.As an adjective pleasing is
agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.pleasure
English
(wikipedia pleasure)Noun
(en noun)Liverpool 0-1 West Brom, passage=But the only statistic that will concern West Brom will be the scoreline, and their manager Roy Hodgson will take considerable pleasure from a victory over the club he managed for just 191 days.}}
- Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure
Money just makes the rich suffer, passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures , the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]}}
- He will do his pleasure on Babylon.
- Use your pleasure ; if your love do not persuade you to come, let not my letter.
Synonyms
* (state of mind ) delight, gladness, gratification, happiness, indulgence, satisfaction * (person or thing that causes enjoyment ): delight, joy * (preference ) desire, fancy, want, will, wish * (will or desire of party in power ) discretionAntonyms
* pain * displeasureDerived terms
* antipleasure * at Her Majesty's pleasure, at His Majesty's pleasure * at one's pleasure, at pleasure * business before pleasure * do someone a pleasure * do someone the pleasure of * during Her Majesty's pleasure, during His Majesty's pleasure * during one's pleasure, during pleasure * end-pleasure * English pleasure * fore-pleasure * gold of pleasure, gold-of-pleasure, gold-pleasure * it's a pleasure * lady of pleasure * man of pleasure * may I have the pleasure * my pleasure * pleasurable * pleasurance * pleasure barge * pleasure boat * pleasure-carriage * pleasure center, pleasure centre * pleasure craft * pleasure cruise * pleasure curve * pleasured * pleasure dome * pleasuredrome * pleasureful * pleasure-giving * pleasure ground * pleasurehood * pleasure house * the pleasure is all mine, the pleasure's all mine * the pleasure is mine, the pleasure's mine * pleasureless * pleasure-loving * pleasurement * pleasure moment * pleasuremonger * pleasure of someone's company * pleasure-pain principle * pleasure principle * pleasurer * pleasure-seeker * pleasure-seeking * pleasures of the flesh * pleasures of the table * pleasure steamer * pleasure trip * pleasure-unpleasure principle * pleasuring * pleasurist * pleasurous * sexual pleasure * to one's pleasure, to pleasure * unpleasure * western pleasure * with pleasure * woman of pleasureVerb
(pleasur)- (Shakespeare)
- [Rolled] his hoop to pleasure Edith.
- Johnny pleasured Jackie orally last night.
- to go pleasuring
External links
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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