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Tantalizing vs Engrossing - What's the difference?

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Tantalizing is a related term of engrossing.


As adjectives the difference between tantalizing and engrossing

is that tantalizing is teasing; tempting, but beyond reach while engrossing is utterly consuming one's time and attention.

As verbs the difference between tantalizing and engrossing

is that tantalizing is while engrossing is present participle of engross.

As a noun engrossing is

the act of one who engrosses, or buys up wholesale.

tantalizing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Teasing; tempting, but beyond reach.
  • * 1851 — , Ch. 133
  • *:...then it was that monomaniac Ahab, furious with this tantalizing vicinity of his foe, which placed him all alive and helpless in the very jaws he hated; frenzied with all this, he seized the long bone with his naked hands, and wildly strove to wrench it from its gripe.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • engrossing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Present participle of engross

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Utterly consuming one's time and attention.
    • an engrossing documentary

    Synonyms

    * absorbing * fascinating

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who engrosses, or buys up wholesale.