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Alluring vs Arousing - What's the difference?

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Alluring is a related term of arousing.


As verbs the difference between alluring and arousing

is that alluring is while arousing is .

As nouns the difference between alluring and arousing

is that alluring is the action of the verb allure while arousing is (rare) an act or occurrence in which something is aroused.

As adjectives the difference between alluring and arousing

is that alluring is having the power to allure while arousing is that or who arouses or arouse.

alluring

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb allure .
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the power to allure.
  • *
  • Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile?; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.

    arousing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That or who arouses or arouse.
  • I am having very arousing thoughts.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) An act or occurrence in which something is aroused
  • * {{quote-book, year=1912, author=Will Levington Comfort, title=Fate Knocks at the Door, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=There is a mob in every drama--poor mob that always loses, of untimely arousings , mere bewildered strength in the wiles of strategy. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Anna Bishop Scofield, title=Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul, chapter=, edition=2nd ed. citation
  • , passage=These excursions of the soul into the realm of matter, thus made by and through the offices of clairvoyants and seers, the repeated arousings of the ego from its contented sleep are finally highly educational, and result in resurrecting the forces of the enfranchised being, and setting them in motion on the lines of useful work for humanity. }}