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Seduction vs. Manipulation — What's the Difference?

Seduction vs. Manipulation — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Seduction and Manipulation

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Seduction

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.

Manipulation

The act or practice of manipulating.

Seduction

The act of seducing.

Manipulation

The state of being manipulated.

Seduction

The condition of being seduced.
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Manipulation

Shrewd or devious management, especially for one's own advantage.

Seduction

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

Manipulation

The practice of manipulating or the state of being manipulated.
The dealer's manipulations could have removed cards from the deck.

Seduction

The act of seducing.
Seduction is the fine art of manipulating people based on physical attraction and desire. Step 1: Be attractive. Step 2: Don't be unattractive.

Manipulation

The skillful use of the hands in, for example, chiropractic.
After a few minutes of manipulation each week, she obtained days of relief from her neck pain.

Seduction

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

Manipulation

The usage of psychological influence over a person, event, or situation to gain a desired outcome.
The counselor was able to reach the disturbed teen through positive psychological manipulation.
Through subtle manipulations he orchestrated the downfall of his rival.

Seduction

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

Manipulation

The act or process of manipulating, or the state of being manipulated; the act of handling work by hand; use of the hands, in an artistic or skillful manner, in science or art.
Manipulation is to the chemist like the external senses to the mind.

Seduction

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.

Manipulation

The use of the hands in mesmeric operations.

Seduction

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

Manipulation

Artful management; as, the manipulation of political bodies; sometimes, a management or treatment for purposes of deception or fraud.

Seduction

Enticing someone astray from right behavior

Manipulation

Exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage;
His manipulation of his friends was scandalous

Seduction

An act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone

Manipulation

The action of touching with the hands or the skillful use of the hands

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