Associations to the word «Seduction»

Wiktionary

SEDUCTION, noun. The act of seducing.
SEDUCTION, noun. (dated) (legal) (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.
SEDUCTION THEORY, proper noun. Sigmund Freud's hypothesis, in the mid-1890s, that a repressed memory of an early childhood sexual abuse experience was the essential precondition for hysterical or obsessional symptoms.

Dictionary definition

SEDUCTION, noun. Enticing someone astray from right behavior.
SEDUCTION, noun. An act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone.

Wise words

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche