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Seduction vs Coercion - What's the difference?

seduction | coercion |

As nouns the difference between seduction and coercion

is that seduction is the act of seducing while coercion is actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.

seduction

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of seducing.
  • Seduction is the fine art of manipulating people based on physical attraction and desire.
  • (dated, legal, in English common law) The felony of, as a man, inducing a previously chaste unmarried female to engage in sexual intercourse on a promise of marriage.
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    coercion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (not countable) Actual]] or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of [[coerce, coercing.
  • (legal, not countable) Use of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will.
  • (countable) A specific instance of coercing.
  • (computing, countable) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
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