allurement
NounWordNet 3.0
Noun (3)
- attractiveness“its allurement was its remoteness”
- the power to entice or attract through personal charmSynonyms: alluretemptingness
- the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money)Synonyms: solicitation
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Allurement \Al*lure"ment\, n.
1.The act alluring; temptation; enticement. [1913 Webster]
Though Adam by his wife's allurement fell.— Milton.[1913 Webster]
2.That which allures; any real or apparent good held forth, or operating, as a motive to action; as, the allurements of pleasure, or of honor. [1913 Webster]