Temptation vs Intrigue - What's the difference?
temptation | intrigue | Related terms |
The act of tempting
The condition of being tempted.
Something attractive, tempting or seductive; an inducement or enticement.
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Pressure applied to your thinking designed to create wrong emotions which will eventually lead to wrong actions.
A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison.
To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
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To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
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Temptation is a related term of intrigue.
As a noun temptation
is the act of tempting.As a verb intrigue is
.temptation
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Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* temptationlessintrigue
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Alternative forms
* entrigueNoun
(en noun)Verb
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- How doth it [sin] perplex and intrigue the whole course of your lives!
