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Ambition vs Temptation - What's the difference?

ambition | temptation |

As nouns the difference between ambition and temptation

is that ambition is ambition for some particular achievement while temptation is the act of tempting.

ambition

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (uncountable, countable) Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
  • My son, John, wants to be a firefighter very much. He has a lot of ambition .
  • * Burke
  • the pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres
  • (countable) An object of an ardent desire.
  • My ambition is to own a helicopter.
  • A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
  • (uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
  • (obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
  • * Milton
  • [I] used no ambition to commend my deeds.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
  • Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. — Trumbull.

    temptation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of tempting
  • The condition of being tempted.
  • Something attractive, tempting or seductive; an inducement or enticement.
  • * '>citation
  • Pressure applied to your thinking designed to create wrong emotions which will eventually lead to wrong actions.
  • Derived terms

    * temptationless