tantalization

1. 1.

   the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances

   “he ignored their teases”

   “his ribbing was gentle but persistent”

   Synonymsteaseteasingribbing

   Broaderharassment

Other forms of tantalization

plural

tantalizations·

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 tantalization

What does tantalization mean?

tantalization means "the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances".

How many syllables are in tantalization?

tantalization has 6 syllables: tan-ta-li-za-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for tantalization?

Close synonyms include tease, teasing, ribbing. 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 tantalization a common word?

tantalization 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.