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Incitement vs Provocation - What's the difference?

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Incitement is a related term of provocation.


As nouns the difference between incitement and provocation

is that incitement is a call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal fashion while provocation is the act of provoking, inciting or annoying someone into doing something.

incitement

English

Alternative forms

* encitement

Noun

(en noun)
  • A call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal fashion.

    • provocation

    English

    (wikipedia provocation)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of provoking, inciting or annoying someone into doing something
  • Something that provokes; a provocative act
  • (emergency medicine) The second step in OPQRST regarding the investigation of what makes the symptoms MOI or NOI improve or deteriorate.
    • When it's time to check for provocation ask the patient about what makes their chief complaint better or worse.

    Related terms

    * provocateur