seduction
Deliberate romantic enticement
Seduction is the act of enticing someone into sexual activity, often with implications of persuasion or manipulation: Her seduction of him was slow and deliberate.
More broadly, seduction is any process of luring someone toward something appealing: the seduction of easy money, the seduction of power.
The word suggests yielding to temptation against one's better judgment.
Persuasive verbal grace
- influencePower to affect others
- swayRock back and forth
- coaxPersuade by gentle urging
- enticementSomething that attracts
rhetoric · inducement · temptation · convincing · compelling · winning over · sweet talk · smooth talk
Seeking another's romantic favor
- flirtationPlayful romantic attention
- wooingRomantic pursuit of another
- passionIntense emotional drive
- infatuationShort-lived intense attraction
desire · attraction · intimacy · chemistry · amour · tryst · candlelight · whisper
Force between poles
- captivationState of being fascinated
- enchantmentMagical influence over someone
- fascinationIntense absorbed interest
- bewitchmentMagical influence over someone
irresistible · mesmerizing · spellbinding · beguiling · enticing · tantalizing · hypnotic · siren
Manipulation causing self-doubt
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
- deceitDeliberate misleading of others
- flatteryExcessive insincere praise
- exploitationSelfish use of others
grooming · predatory · luring · entrapment · deception · ulterior · calculated · scheming
eloquence
Persuasive verbal grace
enticement · rhetoric · inducement · temptation · convincing · compelling · winning over · sweet talk · smooth talk · charming
courtship
Seeking another's romantic favor
- flirtationPlayful romantic attention
- wooingRomantic pursuit of another
- passionIntense emotional drive
infatuation · desire · attraction · intimacy · chemistry · amour · tryst · candlelight · whisper · embrace
magnetism
Force between poles
- captivationState of being fascinated
- enchantmentMagical influence over someone
- fascinationIntense absorbed interest
bewitchment · irresistible · mesmerizing · spellbinding · beguiling · enticing · tantalizing · hypnotic · siren · glamour
gaslighting
Manipulation causing self-doubt
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
- deceitDeliberate misleading of others
- flatteryExcessive insincere praise
exploitation · grooming · predatory · luring · entrapment · deception · ulterior · calculated · scheming · cunning
flirting
Playfully showing romantic interest
pickup · playbook · maneuvering · game · ploy · artifice · feint · pursuit · chase · innuendo
- soap operassoap opera, telenovela, melodrama, cliffhanger, amnesia
- Erotic ThrillersBasic Instinct, Fatal Attraction, Wild Things, Eyes Wide Shut, sexual tension
- intimacykiss, hug, embrace, closeness, snuggling
- seductionallure, beguilement, enticement, coquetry, tempting
- Victorian melodramavillain, heroine, hero, damsel in distress, fainting
- interactionstalking, sharing, greeting, helping, listening
seductionrepulsion
Disgust or pushing-away force
repulsiveness · disgust · revulsion · aversion · repellence
seductiondeterrence
Prevention via threatened consequences
discouragement · dissuasion · warning · prevention · prohibition
- seductive linesAlluring romantic phrases
- seduction scenePortrayal of romantic persuasion