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Tempting vs Appetizing - What's the difference?

tempting | appetizing |

As adjectives the difference between tempting and appetizing

is that tempting is attractive, appealing, enticing while appetizing is that appeals to, or stimulates the appetite.

As verbs the difference between tempting and appetizing

is that tempting is while appetizing is .

As a noun tempting

is the act of subjecting somebody to temptation.

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?

    appetizing

    English

    Alternative forms

    * appetising (mostly British)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That appeals to, or stimulates the appetite.
    • ''This food looks so appetizing.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • The appearance of the wild ducks is very appetizing .

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    () * appetizingly * unappetizing

    Verb

    (head)
    • English calques