ALLUREMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does allurement mean? 

• ALLUREMENT (noun)
  The noun ALLUREMENT has 3 senses:

1. attractiveness

2. the power to entice or attract through personal charm

3. the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money)

  Familiarity information: ALLUREMENT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALLUREMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Attractiveness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

its allurement was its remoteness

Hypernyms ("allurement" is a kind of...):

enticement; temptation (something that seduces or has the quality to seduce)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The power to entice or attract through personal charm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

allure; allurement; temptingness

Hypernyms ("allurement" is a kind of...):

attraction; attractiveness (the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "allurement"):

invitation (a tempting allurement)

Derivation:

allure (dispose or incline or entice to)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

allurement; solicitation

Hypernyms ("allurement" is a kind of...):

enticement; temptation (the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire)

Derivation:

allure (dispose or incline or entice to)

 Context examples 

He mentioned the beauties of his native country and asked us if those were not sufficient allurements to induce us to prolong our journey as far north as Perth, where he resided.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But your arts and allurements may, in a moment of infatuation, have made him forget what he owes to himself and to all his family.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)