seduction

See also: séduction

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French séduction, from Latin seductio, from sēdūcō.

Pronunciation

• (UK, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɪˈdʌk.ʃn̩/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US, General American) IPA^(key): /sɪˈdʌk.ʃn̩/

Noun

seduction (countable and uncountable, plural seductions)

1. 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.

2. (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.
3. (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

• hypnoseduction
• seduction community
• seduction theory

Related terms

• seduce

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 (ca) 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
• West Coast Bajau: please add this translation if you can
• Wolof: please add this translation if you can
• Yámana: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
• Yucatec Maya: please add this translation if you can
• Yup'ik: please add this translation if you can
• Zazaki: please add this translation if you can
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

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