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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
allurement \allure"ment\, n.
1. the act alluring; temptation; enticement.
1913 webster
though adam by his wife's allurement fell. --milton.
1913 webster
2. that which allures; any real or apparent good held forth,
or operating, as a motive to action; as, the allurements
of pleasure, or of honor.
1913 webster
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
allurement
n 1: attractiveness; "its allure was its remoteness"
2: the power to entice or attract through personal charm syn:
allure, temptingness
3: the act of enticing a person to do something wrong as an
offer of sex in return for money syn: solicitation
see also:
allure temptingness solicitation
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
71 moby thesaurus words for "allurement":
adduction, adorability, affinity, agreeability, amiability, appeal,
attractance, attraction, attractiveness, attractivity, bait,
blandishment, cajolement, cajolery, call, capillarity,
capillary attraction, centripetal force, charm, coaxing, come-on,
conning, decoy, desirability, drag, draw, drawing power,
engagement, enlistment, enticement, exhortation, gravitation,
gravity, hortation, inducement, inveiglement, jawboning,
likability, lobbying, lovability, loveliness, lovesomeness, lure,
magnetism, mutual attraction, persuasion, preaching, preachment,
pull, pulling power, sales talk, salesmanship, seducement,
seduction, selling, snare, snow job, soft soap, solicitation,
suasion, sweet talk, sweetness, sympathy, temptation, traction,
trap, tug, wheedling, winning ways, winsomeness, working on
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