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Tantalizing vs Tantalization - What's the difference?

tantalizing | tantalization |

As an adjective tantalizing

is teasing; tempting, but beyond reach.

As a verb tantalizing

is .

As a noun tantalization is

the act of tantalizing.

tantalizing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Teasing; tempting, but beyond reach.
  • * 1851 — , Ch. 133
  • *:...then it was that monomaniac Ahab, furious with this tantalizing vicinity of his foe, which placed him all alive and helpless in the very jaws he hated; frenzied with all this, he seized the long bone with his naked hands, and wildly strove to wrench it from its gripe.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • tantalization

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of tantalizing