Fulfilling
Fulfilling adjective - Making one feel good inside.
Usage example: the college student had a fulfilling job tutoring inner-city youths
Pleasing and fulfilling are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pleasing" instead an adjective "Fulfilling".
Pleasing
Pleasing adjective - Giving pleasure or contentment to the mind or senses.
Fulfilling and pleasing are semantically related. You can use "Fulfilling" instead an adjective "Pleasing".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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However, Catherine willingly chose never to marry, and is perfectly content with her life and comfortable in her own skin in a way that she never was as a younger woman when she had to worry about pleasing her father or fulfilling social obligations of courtship and marriage.
Source: Literature / Washington Square
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