enticement

1. 1.

   something that seduces or has the quality to seduce

   Synonymstemptation

   Broaderinfluence

   Narrowerforbidden fruitbaitallurement
2. 2.

   qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward

   Synonymslurecome-on

   Broaderattraction
3. 3.

   the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire

   “his enticements were shameless”

   Synonymstemptation

   Broaderinfluence

   Narrowerblandishmentleading astrayseductionsolicitation

Other forms of enticement

plural

enticements·

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 enticement

What does enticement mean?

enticement means "something that seduces or has the quality to seduce". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in enticement?

enticement has 3 syllables: en-tice-ment. The stress falls on "tice". In IPA it is /ɪnˈtaɪsmənt/.

What is another word for enticement?

Close synonyms include temptation, lure, come-on, temptation. 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 enticement a common word?

enticement 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.