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Tempting vs Thrilling - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between tempting and thrilling

is that tempting is attractive, appealing, enticing while thrilling is causing the feeling of a sudden excitement.

As verbs the difference between tempting and thrilling

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

As nouns the difference between tempting and thrilling

is that tempting is the act of subjecting somebody to temptation while thrilling is a thrill.

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?

    thrilling

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing the feeling of a sudden excitement.
  • * , chapter=5
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thrill.
  • * (William Hope Hodgson), The Night Land
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