seduction
/sɪˈdʌk.ʃn̩/US/sɪˈdʌk.ʃn̩/
seduction noun: the act of seducing.
Noun
seduction (countable and uncountable, plural seductions)
- The act of seducing.
- Douglas: Well done on passing the test, Jen... Yes, all those clumsy attempts at seduction. Don't tell me you couldn't see through them. They were a test to find out whether you really wanted to work for me or whether you just wanted to come up here for my body.
Jen: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, not at...2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6 - Seduction is the fine art of manipulating people based on physical attraction and desire. Step 1: Be attractive. Step 2: Don't be unattractive.
- Douglas: Well done on passing the test, Jen... Yes, all those clumsy attempts at seduction. Don't tell me you couldn't see through them. They were a test to find out whether you really wanted to work for me or whether you just wanted to come up here for my body.
- The felony of, as a man, inducing a previously chaste unmarried female to engage in sexual intercourse on a promise of marriage.
- 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.2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page xi
seduction meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
seduction in Hindi
- act of seducing
- प्रलोभन pralobhan
seduction in Tamil
- தீ நெறியுய்ப்பு, கெடுப்பு, பழிவீழ்வு, தீநெறியுய்க்கப்படுதல், கெடுக்கும் ஆற்றல், பழியுய்க்குந் திறம்
seduction in Marathi
- seduction, allurement
- प्रलोभन pralobhan
seduction in Urdu
- فتنہ, جاذبیت, کشش, لالچ, پچارا
More languagesFewer languages
- seduction in Bengali
- প্রলোভন, বিপথে চালনা
- seduction in Telugu
- ప్రలోభము pralōbhamu
- seduction in Malayalam
- വശീകരണം vaśīkaraṇaṁ
- seduction in Kannada
- ದುರ್ಮಾರ್ಗಕ್ಕೆ ಎಳೆಯುವುದು, ಶೀಲಭಂಗ, ಆಮಿಷ, ಸೆಳೆತ
- seduction in Odia
- ପ୍ରଲୁବ୍ଧକରଣ
- seduction in Malay
- penggodaan
- seduction in Vietnamese
- sự quyến rũ, sự dụ dỗ
Examples of seduction in a sentence
- It is like an act of apodyopsis, one of those mentally stimulating realities of seduction.
- Ray was her fantasy, her mind-candy, as were her plans for his seduction.
- The lengthy approaches to a seduction bored him almost as much as the subsequent mess of disentanglement.
Forms of seduction
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Origin of seduction
Borrowed from Middle French séduction, from Latin sēductiō, from sēdūcō. Equivalent to seduce + -tion.
Words formed from seduction
Questions about seduction
- What does seduction mean?
- Seduction means the act of seducing.
- What is seduction in Hindi?
- Seduction in Hindi is प्रलोभन (pralobhan). See Seduction meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is seduction?
- Seduction is a noun.
- How do you pronounce seduction?
- Seduction is pronounced /sɪˈdʌk.ʃn̩/ (UK).
- What is the plural of seduction?
- The plural of seduction is seductions.
Words near seduction in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: seduction (page history and authors); seduction (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); प्रलोभन (Marathi) (page history and authors); seduction (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); seduction (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); വശീകരണം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); seduction (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); seduction (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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