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Allure vs Tempting - What's the difference?

allure | tempting |

As nouns the difference between allure and tempting

is that allure is affectation while tempting is the act of subjecting somebody to temptation.

As an adjective tempting is

attractive, appealing, enticing.

As a verb tempting is

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allure

English

Noun

  • The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
  • gait; bearing
    • The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men. — Harper's Magazine.

    Verb

    (allur)
  • To entice; to attract.
  • *, II.8:
  • *:Injustice doth allure them; as the honour of their vertuous actions enticeth the good.

    • Synonyms

    * attract, entice, tempt, decoy, seduce

    Related terms

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    Anagrams

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    tempting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Attractive, appealing, enticing.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
  • Seductive, alluring, inviting.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of subjecting somebody to temptation.
  • * (William Bridge)
    • If God doth suffer his own people and dearest children to be exposed to Satan's temptings and winnowings; Why should any man then doubt of his childship, doubt of his own everlasting condition, and say, that he is none of the child of God because he is tempted?