Pleasers

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A person or thing that satisfies or brings pleasure to others
2. Someone who goes out of their way to make others happy or content
3. An entity that seeks to fulfill the desires or expectations of others for their gratification

Etymology: "Pleasers" is the plural of "pleaser," a word that came into English in Middle English as "plesere," built from the verb "please" plus the agent suffix "-er," so it names a person who pleases. The plural form simply groups such people together, and the noun is the kind of straightforward formation English produces whenever a verb can take "-er" to name a doer. The noun's meaning has followed the verb closely. "Please" itself comes from Old French "plaisir," which stands behind the modern English word's sense of giving satisfaction, and "pleaser" inherited that pleasant, agreeable tone. Today "pleasers" tends to describe people who go out of their way to accommodate others and win approval, which is the sense the term carries here.

Synonyms: satisfiers, delighters, gratifiers