Noun: Lessing le-sing
- German playwright and leader of the Enlightenment (1729-1781)
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- English author of novels and short stories who grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) (1919-2013)
- Doris Lessing, Doris May Lessing
Type of: author, dramatist, playwright, writer
Encyclopedia: Lessing, Lawrence