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Noun incitement has 4 senses

• incitement(n = noun.act) incitation - an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating; "the incitement of mutiny"
is a kind of arousal, rousing
Derived form verb incite₂

• incitement(n = noun.communication) provocation - needed encouragement; "the result was a provocation of vigorous investigation"
is a kind of encouragement
has particulars: subornation
Derived form verb incite₁

• incitement(n = noun.motive) incitation, provocation - something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action; Array
is a kind of mental energy, psychic energy
has particulars: signal
Derived form verb incite₃

• incitement(n = noun.communication) exhortation - the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion; Array
is a kind of persuasion, suasion
has particulars: pep talk

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THESAURUS

incitement

aggravation, agitating, agitation, animation, arousal, arousing, awakening, bait, bribe, carrot, clout, compulsion, drive, driving force, electrification, encouragement, enticement, exacerbation, exasperation, excitation, excitement, exciting, exhilaration, exhortation, exhorting, fillip, firing, fomentation, fomenting, galvanization, goading, impellent, impelling force, impetus, impulse, impulsion, incentive, incitation, inducement, inflaming, inflammation, influence, influencing, infuriation, inspiration, instigating, instigation, interest, invitation, irresistible force, irritation, lathering up, lure, moment, momentum, motivation, motive power, mover, needling, payment, pep rally, pep talk, percentage, persuasion, persuasive, perturbation, power, pricking, prodding, profit, prompting, propulsion, provocation, provoking, rabble-rousing, rallying, reward, spurring, steaming up, stimulation, stimulative, stimulus, stirring, stirring up, stirring-up, sweetener, sweetening, temptation, thrust, urging, wakening, whet, whipping, whipping up, working up

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incitement

Motive

N motive, springs of action, wellsprings of action, reason, ground, call, principle, by end, by purpose, mainspring, primum mobile, keystone, the why and the wherefore, pro and con, reason why, secret motive, arriere pensee, intention, inducement, consideration, attraction, loadstone, magnet, magnetism, magnetic force, allectation, allective, temptation, enticement, agacerie, allurement, witchery, bewitchment, bewitchery, charm, spell, fascination, blandishment, cajolery, seduction, seducement, honeyed words, voice of the tempter, song of the Sirens forbidden fruit, golden apple, persuasibility, persuasibleness, attractability, impressibility, susceptibility, softness, persuasiveness, attractiveness, tantalization, influence, prompting, dictate, instance, impulse, impulsion, incitement, incitation, press, instigation, provocation, inspiration, persuasion, suasion, encouragement, advocacy, exhortation, advice, solicitation, lobbyism, pull, incentive, stimulus, spur, fillip, whip, goad, ankus, rowel, provocative, whet, dram, bribe, lure, decoy, decoy duck, bait, trail of a red herring, bribery and corruption, sop, sop for Cerberus, prompter, tempter, seducer, seductor, instigator, firebrand, incendiary, Siren, Circe, agent provocateur, lobbyist, impulsive, motive, suasive, suasory, persuasive, persuasory, hortative, hortatory, protreptical, inviting, tempting suasive, suasory, seductive, attractive, fascinating, provocative, induced, disposed, persuadable, spellbound, instinct with, smitten with, infatuated, inspired, by, because, therefore, from this motive, from that motive, for this reason, for that reason, for, by reason of, for the sake of, count of, out of, from, as, forasmuch as, for all the world, on principle, fax mentis incendium gloriae, temptation hath a music for all ears, to beguile many and be beguiled by one.

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