different between beguilement vs flattery

English

Etymology

beguile +? -ment

Noun

beguilement (plural beguilements)

1. The action or process of beguiling; the characteristic of being beguiling.
   • 1924, Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography, First Edition, Volume 2, entry dated Tuesday, April 10, 1906, ^[1]

     Little by little Bacon got to beguiling out of Hill things to do, and presently Hill was furnishing him the things to do without any beguilement.

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 8,

     But a line wasn't feasibly resisted. He loved the etiquette of the thing, the chopping with a credit card, the passing of the tightly rolled note, the procedure courteous and dry, “all done with money,” as Wani said—it was part of the larger beguilement, and once it had begun it squeezed him with its charm and promise.

English

Etymology

From Middle English flaterye, flaterie, from Old French flaterie, from the verb flater (“to flatter”). Synchronically analyzable as flatter +? -y (forming abstract nouns).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flæt??i/
• Hyphenation: flat?te?ry

Noun

flattery (countable and uncountable, plural flatteries)

1. (uncountable) Excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour.
2. (countable) An instance of excessive praise.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:flattery

Related terms

• flatter
• flattered
• flattering

Translations

Anagrams

• flat tyre