Romance vs. Seduction — What's the Difference?

A love affair

Seduction has multiple meanings. Platonically, it can mean "to persuade to disobedience or disloyalty", or "to lead astray, usually by persuasion or false promises".Strategies of seduction include conversation and sexual scripts, paralingual features, non-verbal communication, and short-term behavioural strategies.

Ardent emotional attachment or involvement between people; love

The act of seducing.

A strong, sometimes short-lived attachment, fascination, or enthusiasm for something

The condition of being seduced.

A mysterious or fascinating quality or appeal, as of something adventurous, heroic, or strangely beautiful

Something that seduces or has the qualities to seduce; an enticement.

A long medieval narrative in prose or verse that tells of the adventures and heroic exploits of chivalric heroes

The act of seducing.

A long fictitious tale of heroes and extraordinary or mysterious events, usually set in a distant time or place.

The felony of, as a man, inducing a previously chaste unmarried female to engage in sexual intercourse on a promise of marriage.

The class of literature constituted by such tales.

The act of seducing; enticement to wrong doing; enticement to fail in some duty.

An artistic work, such as a novel, story, or film, that deals with sexual love, especially in an idealized form.

The offense of inducing a woman to consent to unlawful sexual intercourse, by enticements which overcome her scruples; the wrong or crime of persuading a woman to surrender her chastity.

The class or style of such works.

That which seduces, or is adapted to seduce; means of leading astray; as, the seductions of wealth.

A fictitiously embellished account or explanation

Enticing someone astray from right behavior

(Music) A lyrical, tender, usually sentimental song or short instrumental piece.

An act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone

Romance The Romance languages.

Romance Of, relating to, or being any of the languages that developed from Latin, including Italian, French, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish.

To think or behave in a romantic manner

To court, woo, or try to arouse the romantic interest of.

To have a love affair with.

To try to persuade, as with flattery or incentives

A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc.

A tale of high adventure.

An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.

A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.

Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.

A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.

A story or novel dealing with idealized love.

An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.

An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.

A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.

(music) A romanza, or sentimental ballad.

(transitive) To woo; to court.

(intransitive) To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.

(intransitive) To talk extravagantly and imaginatively; to build castles in the air.

A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a heroine; a tale of extravagant adventures, of love, and the like.

An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life, was a romance.

A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real; as, a girl full of romance.

The languages, or rather the several dialects, which were originally forms of popular or vulgar Latin, and have now developed into Italian. Spanish, French, etc. (called the Romanic languages).

A short lyric tale set to music; a song or short instrumental piece in ballad style; a romanza.

A love affair, esp. one in which the lovers display their deep affection openly, by romantic gestures.

Of or pertaining to the language or dialects known as Romance.

To write or tell romances; to indulge in extravagant stories.

A relationship between two lovers

An exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)

The group of languages derived from Latin

A story dealing with love

A novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life

Make amorous advances towards;

Have a love affair with

Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions;

Tell romantic or exaggerated lies;

Relating to languages derived from Latin;