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Contriving vs Intriguing - What's the difference?

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Contriving is a related term of intriguing.


As verbs the difference between contriving and intriguing

is that contriving is while intriguing is .

As nouns the difference between contriving and intriguing

is that contriving is the act of one who contrives while intriguing is an intrigue.

As an adjective intriguing is

causing a desire to know more; mysterious.

contriving

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who contrives.
  • * 2007 , Steve Talbott, Devices of the Soul (page 192)
    • Do we really want all those strivings and contrivings —all those thoughts and assumptions someone has cleverly etched into the hardware and software we are using—to remain invisible?

    intriguing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing a desire to know more; mysterious.

    • Synonyms

    * fascinating, interesting, attractive

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An intrigue.
  • * Thomas Longueville, The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck
    • In all these negotiations, and caballings, and intriguings , the person most concerned, Frances Coke, the beauty and the heiress, was only the ball in the game.