different between intriguing vs titillating

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intriguing (comparative more intriguing, superlative most intriguing)

Causing a desire to know more; mysterious.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:mysterious
(archaic) Having clandestine or illicit intercourse.
- 1839, Michael Ryan, Prostitution in London (page 83)
  […] few respectable women will now sit at a window, looking into the public street, or gaze at passengers in any large town or city; and no one does so at present, unless an innocent inexperienced, husband-hunting, flirtish, or intriguing person.

intriguing

intriguing (plural intriguings)

(dated) An intrigue.
- 1909, Thomas Longueville, The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck
  In all these negotiations, and caballings, and intriguings, the person most concerned, Frances Coke, the beauty and the heiress, was only the ball in the game.

titillating

titillating (comparative more titillating, superlative most titillating)

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