Tempting vs Temptation - What's the difference?
tempting | temptation |
Attractive, appealing, enticing.
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, title= Seductive, alluring, inviting.
The act of subjecting somebody to temptation.
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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.
As nouns the difference between tempting and temptation
is that tempting is the act of subjecting somebody to temptation while temptation is the act of tempting.As an adjective tempting
is attractive, appealing, enticing.As a verb tempting
is present participle of lang=en.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?