seduction

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
15
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/sɪˈdʌk.ʃn̩/(UK)
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/sɪˈdʌk.ʃn̩/(UK) · /sɪˈdʌk.ʃn̩/(US)

Definition of seduction

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of seducing.
    “Seduction is the fine art of manipulating people based on physical attraction and desire. Step 1: Be attractive. Step 2: Don't be unattractive.”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of seducing.
    “Seduction is the fine art of manipulating people based on physical attraction and desire. Step 1: Be attractive. Step 2: Don't be unattractive.”
  2. (countable, dated, uncountable)The felony of, as a man, inducing a previously chaste unmarried female to engage in sexual intercourse on a promise of marriage.
  3. (countable, plural-normally, uncountable)A seductive aspect of something; appeal.
    “It is with no small degree of irony that I confess that immersing myself in an interdisciplinary project has warmed me to the seductions of disciplinary perspectives.”

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Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French séduction, from Latin sēductiō, from sēdūcō. Equivalent to seduce + -tion.

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