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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French séduction, from Latin seductio, from sēdūcō.
Pronunciation
Noun
seduction (countable and uncountable, plural seductions)
- The act of seducing.
- 2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6:
- 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 all.
Douglas: All right.
Jen: No, physically you're just not the sort of man I go for.
Douglas: Yeah, thanks, Jen.
Jen: I go for the classically good-looking men: Blond, broad, and generally clean shaven.
Douglas: Alright, yeah, enough of the jibber-jabber!
Seduction is the fine art of manipulating people based on physical attraction and desire. Step 1: Be attractive. Step 2: Don't be unattractive.
- (dated, law, in English common law) The felony of, as a man, inducing a previously chaste unmarried female to engage in sexual intercourse on a promise of marriage.
- (usually in the plural) A seductive aspect of something; appeal.
2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page xi: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.
Derived terms
Translations
act of seducing
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: գայթակղում (hy) (gaytʻakġum), գայթակղություն (hy) (gaytʻakġutʻyun)
- Bulgarian: съблазняване n (sǎblaznjavane), прелъстяване (bg) n (prelǎstjavane)
- Catalan: seducció f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 誘惑/诱惑 (zh) (yòuhuò)
- Czech: svádění n
- Danish: forføring c
- Dutch: verleiding (nl)
- Finnish: houkuttelu (fi), viettely (fi)
- French: séduction (fr) f
- Galician: sedución (gl) f
- German: Verführung (de) f
- Gothic: 𐌿𐍃𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 f (uswandeins)
- Greek: αποπλάνηση (el) f (apoplánisi), ξελόγιασμα (el) n (xelógiasma)
- Japanese: 誘惑 (ja) (ゆうわく, yūwaku)
- Korean: 유혹 (ko) (yuhok)
- Latin: inlectamentum n
- Malay: penggodaan
- Maori: hīangatanga, whakawaitanga
- Plautdietsch: Vefierunk f
- Polish: uwodzenie (pl) n
- Portuguese: sedução (pt) f
- Russian: обольще́ние (ru) n (obolʹščénije), совраще́ние (ru) n (sovraščénije), собла́зн (ru) m (soblázn) (temptation)
- Slovak: zvádzanie pl
- Slovene: zapeljevanje pl
- Spanish: seducción (es) f
- Telugu: ప్రలోభము (te) (pralōbhamu)
- Vietnamese: sự quyến rũ (vi), sự dụ dỗ (vi)
- Volapük: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: llithio m, llithiad m
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