pleasing

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   giving pleasure and satisfaction

   a pleasing piece of news

2. 2
   adj

   Agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.

   These two designs were neat and handsome, by modern standards, and very pleasing in appearance.

3. 3
   noun

   pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to someone's pleasing."

   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 […]

4. 4
   noun

   the act of one who pleases

5. 5
   verb

   present participle and gerund of please.

Etymology

From Middle English plesynge, pleizinge, plesende (present participle), equivalent to please + -ing.