What's the difference between enticing and fascinating?

Enticing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Entice
  • (a.) That entices; alluring.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The new slogan “for the thirsty” seems to lionise those who try different things: great for enticing new patrons but do you really want your loyal consumer base branching out beyond their usual pint?
  • (2) Mike Hawes, SMMT chief executive, said buyers were snapping up "enticing deals on a wealth of advanced new products".
  • (3) It's hardly an enticing prospect for would-be adopters, who are repeatedly told that they stand a far better chance of being matched if they're prepared to take on a child who is disabled, has emotional or developmental needs, is in a sibling group, or is older (and therefore more likely to have endured repeated trauma and multiple placements).
  • (4) The zesty, citrus whiff of oranges freshens up the January kitchen, drawing a line under heavy celebratory food, and lighting up the virtuous, but enticing path to a lighter, healthier diet.
  • (5) In the real world the situation must be far more complex as will become evident but as a concept the avoidance of Ca2+ overloading is enticing.
  • (6) "As Android and Apple tear each other apart, Microsoft has been waiting in the wings and is in a very good position to move in and entice users to switch from Android to Microsoft, as we have already seen that user loyalty is low."
  • (7) While attention has focused on the enticing possibility of a bid for the papers from established newspaper owners such as Express Newspapers boss Richard Desmond, News Corporation mogul Rupert Murdoch and Daily Mail & General Trust, analysts and bankers believe a City-backed bid is far more likely.
  • (8) The picture window in the upper floor lobby frames a view of enticing blue sea.
  • (9) The answer lies in a mix of carrot and stick provision including investing in a more integrated public transport network, encouraging active transport in the form of walking and cycling, and enticing people out of their cars.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Luminous umbrellas lit beneath high wire artist Jade Kindar-Martin.
  • (10) Athens has lowered the minimum monthly wage for those under 25 years by 32% to about €500 to entice hiring.
  • (11) Prospects that are both enticing and simple, the latter encapsulated his response.
  • (12) He dropped out to set up Rawkus Records with friends, before his father enticed him into the family business, offering him the chance to run internet businesses at a time when the world's big media groups were first flirting with the online world.
  • (13) Wonga has come in for criticism from Creasy and other opponents of high-cost lenders, which entice consumers with large advertising budgets spent on extensive TV, press and outdoor campaigns.
  • (14) Until we are mathematically gone, I will believe.” Tottenham’s Son Heung-min grabs late winner after Watford red card Read more He also said he will do his utmost to entice reinforcements during the January transfer window, but admits that the club’s predicament complicates recruitment.
  • (15) Early signs were encouraging: Labour's controversial ID card scheme was scrapped and the enticingly titled protection of freedoms bill was conceived.
  • (16) The real solution is "freemium": you offer a lot to lots of people for free (with ads), but you entice those at the high end with paid-for stuff.
  • (17) In its review , the Economis t came up with a useful everyday analogy: high-frequency traders are like "the people who offer you tasty titbits as you enter the supermarket to entice you to buy; but in this case, as you show appreciation for the goods, they race through the aisles to mark the price up before you can get your trolley to the chosen counter".
  • (18) At least one half of the coalition might find such a prospect enticing.
  • (19) Letta was parachuted into power last April after Pier Luigi Bersani, the then PD leader, failed to entice Beppe Grillo's anti-establishment movement into a coalition.
  • (20) The animal, called Rat Hole, even refused to co-operate when the riders attempted to entice him back to his pen in what was described as a bovine removal exercise.

Fascinating


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fascinate

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
  • (2) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.
  • (3) In a new venture, BDJ Study Tours will offer a separate itinerary for partners on the Study Safari so whilst the business of dentistry gets under way they can explore additional sights in this fascinating country.
  • (4) It is this combination that explains the widespread fascination with how China's economic size or power compares to America's, and especially with the question of whether the challenger has now displaced the long-reigning champion.
  • (5) The goal must be to prevent or reverse this fascinating disease, utilizing specific therapy designed from a knowledge of the cause and pathogenesis of the disease.
  • (6) We can inhabit only one version of being human – the only version that survives today – but what is fascinating is that palaeoanthropology shows us those other paths to becoming human, their successes and their eventual demise, whether through failure or just sheer bad luck.
  • (7) Stationed in Sarajevo, he became fascinated by special forces methods there and insisted on going on a night raid with them.
  • (8) Sometimes in the other team’s half, sometimes in front of his own box, sometimes as the last man.” Die Zeit singles out Bayern’s veteran midfielder Schweinsteiger for praise: “In this historic, dramatic and fascinating victory over Argentina , Schweinsteiger was the boss on the pitch.
  • (9) Her history is fascinating – every time you think she has finished telling you about her childhood, she embarks on another chapter.
  • (10) This kind of audience investment is one of the reasons why James Baker's 30 Days to Space , at the Edinburgh 2010 forest fringe, proved so fascinating.
  • (11) "It's fascinating that 2010 will be bookended by two controversial political books, one about the latter years of the Government [Observer writer Andrew Rawnsley's The End of the Party], and one by the man that delivered New Labour to the country in the 1990s."
  • (12) The fascinating pathogenetic, clinical, biological and therapeutic resemblances between the present syndrome and the post-infarctual syndrome of Dressler and Johnson's post-pericardiotomic syndrome are pointed out and it is suggested that complications of medical nature already described as being secondary to the installation of pacemakers, such as endocarditis and pericarditis, should be looked at from an autoimmune type of pathogenetic viewpoint.
  • (13) A study of gonadotrophin production in horses and donkeys bearing hybrid foals has yielded fascinating results about the immunology of pregnancy.
  • (14) Central to the whole project was a patient fascination with religion, represented, in particular, in his attempt to understand the revolutionary power of puritanism.
  • (15) The weeks ahead in Australia will likely be fascinating, exciting, distressing, emotional, anticipatory, and, at times, challenging .
  • (16) "She [Simpson] was one of the most stylish women of the day, and there is a lasting fascination with their lives together which shows no sign of going away," said Bryony Meredith, head of Sotheby's jewellery department.
  • (17) This has been a really fascinating half of football: the favourites finally showing some real class up front, the minnows digging deep in defence and occasionally breaking forward.
  • (18) But nevertheless Theco is a fascinating creature because of both its place in the history of palaeontology and what it reveals about the south-west of England in prehistoric times.
  • (19) The last several decades have seen a marked increase in our knowledge base regarding these fascinating envenomations and intoxications.
  • (20) The fascination of American and British scholars with each other's health care systems is a case study of the risks and benefits of the comparative approach.