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) (file) - (US, General American) IPA(key): /sɪˈdʌk.ʃn̩/
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!
- 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.
- Seduction is the fine art of manipulating people based on physical attraction and desire. Step 1: Be attractive. Step 2: Don't be unattractive.
- 2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6:
- (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.
Derived terms
- hypnoseduction
- seduction theory
Related terms
- seduce
Translations
act of seducing
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Anagrams
- eductions, suctioned