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Pleasing vs Sparkling - What's the difference?

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Pleasing is a related term of sparkling.


As adjectives the difference between pleasing and sparkling

is that pleasing is agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification while sparkling is of an object, reflecting light as if giving off tiny sparks.

As nouns the difference between pleasing and sparkling

is that pleasing is pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing" while sparkling is act or appearance of something that sparkles; a sparkle; a gleam.

As verbs the difference between pleasing and sparkling

is that pleasing is while sparkling is .

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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    sparkling

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of an object, reflecting light as if giving off tiny sparks.
  • Of a beverage, especially an alcoholic beverage, containing dissolved carbon dioxide (either naturally or that has been added) that comes out of solution in the form of many tiny bubbles.
  • Brilliant and vivacious.
  • * '>citation
  • Synonyms

    * glistening, twinkling * (of a beverage) fizzy, carbonated

    Antonyms

    * (of a beverage) noncarbonated, still

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Act or appearance of something that sparkles; a sparkle; a gleam.
  • * Nathaniel John Hollingsworth
  • Bright are the sparklings that beam from the dew.
  • A sparkling wine.
  • * 2011 , Michael Cooper, 100 Must-try New Zealand Wines (page 208)
  • Wines like this struggle to stand out on the show circuit, where the judges are more likely to be searching for sparklings designed in the classic Champagne mould.