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Entice vs Incentive - What's the difference?

entice | incentive |

As a verb entice

is to lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.

As a noun incentive is

something that motivates, rouses, or encourages.

As an adjective incentive is

inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulating.

entice

English

Verb

(entic)
  • To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.
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    I enticed the little bear into the trap with a pot of honey.

    See also

    * beguile * tempt * seduce

    References

    * *

    incentive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages.
  • * {{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; […].}}
  • A bonus or reward, often monetary, to work harder.
  • Antonyms

    * disincentive

    Derived terms

    * incentivise/incentivize, tax incentive

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulating.
  • * Dr. H. More
  • Competency is the most incentive to industry.
  • Serving to kindle or set on fire.
  • * Milton
  • Part incentive reed / Provide, pernicious with one touch of fire.