ENTICEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enticement mean? 

• ENTICEMENT (noun)
  The noun ENTICEMENT has 3 senses:

1. something that seduces or has the quality to seduce

2. qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward

3. the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire

  Familiarity information: ENTICEMENT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTICEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something that seduces or has the quality to seduce

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

enticement; temptation

Hypernyms ("enticement" is a kind of...):

influence (a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "enticement"):

forbidden fruit (originally an apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden; it is now used to refer to anything that is tempting but dangerous (as sexuality))

bait; come-on; hook; lure; sweetener (anything that serves as an enticement)

allurement (attractiveness)

Derivation:

entice (provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

come-on; enticement; lure

Hypernyms ("enticement" is a kind of...):

attraction; attractiveness (the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts)

Derivation:

entice (provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of influencing by exciting hope or desire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

enticement; temptation

Context example:

his enticements were shameless

Hypernyms ("enticement" is a kind of...):

influence (causing something without any direct or apparent effort)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "enticement"):

blandishment; wheedling (the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery)

leading astray; leading off (the act of enticing others into sinful ways)

seduction (enticing someone astray from right behavior)

allurement; solicitation (the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money))

Derivation:

entice (provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion)

 Context examples 

My life might have been passed in ease and luxury, but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

No persuasions or enticements could overcome her fear, till, the fact coming to Mr. Laurence's ear in some mysterious way, he set about mending matters.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to induce me to commence this laborious voyage with the joy a child feels when he embarks in a little boat, with his holiday mates, on an expedition of discovery up his native river.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)