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Tempting vs Intriguing - What's the difference?

tempting | intriguing |

As adjectives the difference between tempting and intriguing

is that tempting is attractive, appealing, enticing while intriguing is causing a desire to know more; mysterious.

As verbs the difference between tempting and intriguing

is that tempting is present participle of lang=en while intriguing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between tempting and intriguing

is that tempting is the act of subjecting somebody to temptation while intriguing is {{cx|dated|lang=en}} An intrigue.

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?

    intriguing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing a desire to know more; mysterious.

    • Synonyms

    * fascinating, interesting, attractive

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An intrigue.
  • * Thomas Longueville, The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck
    • In all these negotiations, and caballings, and intriguings , the person most concerned, Frances Coke, the beauty and the heiress, was only the ball in the game.