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Pleasing vs Pleasuring - What's the difference?

pleasing | pleasuring |

As nouns the difference between pleasing and pleasuring

is that pleasing is pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing" while pleasuring is an act of giving (sometimes sexual) pleasure.

As verbs the difference between pleasing and pleasuring

is that pleasing is while pleasuring is .

As an adjective pleasing

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

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

    (head)

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    pleasuring

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of giving (sometimes sexual) pleasure.
  • * 1882 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books
    • He is the declared enemy of all living by reflex action, of all that is done betwixt sleep and waking, of all the pleasureless pleasurings and imaginary duties in which we coin away our hearts and fritter invaluable years.