Entice vs Incentive - What's the difference?
entice | incentive |
To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.
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Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages.
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Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulating.
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Serving to kindle or set on fire.
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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
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- I enticed the little bear into the trap with a pot of honey.
See also
* beguile * tempt * seduceReferences
* *incentive
English
(wikipedia incentive)Noun
(en noun)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; […].}}
Antonyms
* disincentiveDerived terms
* incentivise/incentivize, tax incentiveAdjective
(en adjective)- Competency is the most incentive to industry.
- Part incentive reed / Provide, pernicious with one touch of fire.
