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Seduce vs Tempting - What's the difference?

seduce | tempting |

As verbs the difference between seduce and tempting

is that seduce is to beguile or lure someone away from duty, accepted principles, or proper conduct; to lead astray while tempting is .

As an adjective tempting is

attractive, appealing, enticing.

As a noun tempting is

the act of subjecting somebody to temptation.

seduce

English

Verb

  • To beguile or lure someone away from duty, accepted principles, or proper conduct; to lead astray.
    • Your father was seduced by the dark side of The Force.'' - Obi Wan Kenobi, ''
  • To entice or induce someone to engage in a sexual relationship.
    • Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?'' - Benjamin Braddock, ''
  • (by extension, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse with.
    • He had repeatedly seduced the girl in his car, hotels and his home.
  • To win over or attract someone.

    • Related terms

    * seduction * seductive * seducement * seducer * seductress

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    tempting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Attractive, appealing, enticing.
  • * {{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; […].}}
  • Seductive, alluring, inviting.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of subjecting somebody to temptation.
  • * (William Bridge)
    • If God doth suffer his own people and dearest children to be exposed to Satan's temptings and winnowings; Why should any man then doubt of his childship, doubt of his own everlasting condition, and say, that he is none of the child of God because he is tempted?