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Titillating vs Tantalizing - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between titillating and tantalizing

is that titillating is present participle of lang=en while tantalizing is present participle of lang=en.

As adjectives the difference between titillating and tantalizing

is that titillating is pleasantly and sensually exciting while tantalizing is teasing; tempting, but beyond reach.

titillating

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Pleasantly and sensually exciting.
  • Arousing.

    • tantalizing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Teasing; tempting, but beyond reach.
  • * 1851 — , Ch. 133
  • *:...then it was that monomaniac Ahab, furious with this tantalizing vicinity of his foe, which placed him all alive and helpless in the very jaws he hated; frenzied with all this, he seized the long bone with his naked hands, and wildly strove to wrench it from its gripe.

    • Verb

    (head)