Definition of Absorbing

Absorbing

of Absorb

Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit.

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Absorb, Absorbing, An, As, Engrossing, Of, Pursuit, Swallowing

Absorbing Quotations

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.
Audrey Hepburn

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Jean-Paul Sartre

We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us.
Thom Yorke

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.
Graham Nash

My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.
John Grierson

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.
Felix Mendelssohn

Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.
Hattie McDaniel

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
Rudy Rucker

As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played.
Ross MacDonald

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.
William J. Brennan, Jr.

There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs.
Anne Northup

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Absorbing Translations

absorbing in Dutch is fascinerend, boeiend, betoverend
absorbing in German is interessant, absorbierender, aufsaugend
absorbing in Italian is interesante
absorbing in Portuguese is absorver
absorbing in Spanish is absorbente, enderezado
absorbing in Swedish is absorberande

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