temptation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A strong wish to have or do something you know you should avoid.

   I felt a strong temptation to eat another piece of cake.

2. 2
   noun

   Something attractive that makes you want it.

   The shop window was full of tempting chocolates, a real temptation.

From Old French temptacion, from Latin temptatio. Morphologically tempt + -ation.

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