allurement

1. 1.

   attractiveness

   “its allurement was its remoteness”

   Broadertemptation
2. 2.

   the power to entice or attract through personal charm

   Synonymsalluretemptingness

   Broaderattraction

   Narrowerinvitation
3. 3.

   the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money)

   Synonymssolicitation

   Broaderenticement

Other forms of allurement

plural

allurements·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about allurement

What does allurement mean?

allurement means "attractiveness". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in allurement?

allurement has 4 syllables: al-lu-re-ment. The stress falls on "lu".

What is another word for allurement?

Close synonyms include allure, temptingness, solicitation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is allurement a common word?

allurement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.