enticement

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: en=tice=ment

CIDE DICTIONARY

enticement, n. [OF. enticement.].

•  The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; alluring object; as, an enticement to sin.

Syn. -- Allurement; attraction; temptation; seduction; inveiglement; persuasion; inducement.

THESAURUS

enticement

agacerie, allure, allurement, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, bait, beguilement, beguiling, bewitchery, bewitchment, blandishment, cajolery, captivation, charisma, charm, charmingness, coaxing, come-hither, come-on, decoy, enchantment, enthrallment, entrapment, fascination, flirtation, forbidden fruit, glamour, inducement, interest, inveiglement, invitation, lure, magnetism, persuasion, seducement, seduction, seductiveness, sex appeal, snare, snaring, soft soap, tantalization, temptation, trap, wheedling, winning ways, winsomeness, witchery, wooing

ROGET THESAURUS

enticement

Motive

N motive, springs of action, wellsprings of action, reason, ground, call, principle, by end, by purpose, mainspring, primum mobile, keystone, the why and the wherefore, pro and con, reason why, secret motive, arriere pensee, intention, inducement, consideration, attraction, loadstone, magnet, magnetism, magnetic force, allectation, allective, temptation, enticement, agacerie, allurement, witchery, bewitchment, bewitchery, charm, spell, fascination, blandishment, cajolery, seduction, seducement, honeyed words, voice of the tempter, song of the Sirens forbidden fruit, golden apple, persuasibility, persuasibleness, attractability, impressibility, susceptibility, softness, persuasiveness, attractiveness, tantalization, influence, prompting, dictate, instance, impulse, impulsion, incitement, incitation, press, instigation, provocation, inspiration, persuasion, suasion, encouragement, advocacy, exhortation, advice, solicitation, lobbyism, pull, incentive, stimulus, spur, fillip, whip, goad, ankus, rowel, provocative, whet, dram, bribe, lure, decoy, decoy duck, bait, trail of a red herring, bribery and corruption, sop, sop for Cerberus, prompter, tempter, seducer, seductor, instigator, firebrand, incendiary, Siren, Circe, agent provocateur, lobbyist, impulsive, motive, suasive, suasory, persuasive, persuasory, hortative, hortatory, protreptical, inviting, tempting suasive, suasory, seductive, attractive, fascinating, provocative, induced, disposed, persuadable, spellbound, instinct with, smitten with, infatuated, inspired, by, because, therefore, from this motive, from that motive, for this reason, for that reason, for, by reason of, for the sake of, count of, out of, from, as, forasmuch as, for all the world, on principle, fax mentis incendium gloriae, temptation hath a music for all ears, to beguile many and be beguiled by one.