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What is the difference between pleasant and pleasurable and pleasing ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between pleasant and pleasurable and pleasing ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Pleasant evening. Pleasant smell. Similar to 'nice'.
Pleasing to the ears. Generally, I would say that 'pleasing' includes the meaning of satisfying a desire/expectation. A teacher could say that a student's performance was pleasing.
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Pleasant = nice
Pleasurable = it gives me pleasure
Pleasing = it pleases me / makes me happy
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