Tempting vs Seductive - What's the difference?
tempting | seductive |
Attractive, appealing, enticing.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
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, title= Seductive, alluring, inviting.
The act of subjecting somebody to temptation.
* (William Bridge)
Attractive, alluring, tempting.
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As adjectives the difference between tempting and seductive
is that tempting is attractive, appealing, enticing while seductive is attractive, alluring, tempting.As a verb tempting
is present participle of lang=en.As a noun tempting
is the act of subjecting somebody to temptation.tempting
English
Adjective
(en adjective)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; […].}}
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- 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?
seductive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.