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

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley