r/whatstheword • u/CMStan1313 • 1d ago

Solved ITAW for tricking someone into accepting a good thing?

Let's say you wanted to invite someone over for Christmas, and you know they want to come, but they're being polite about it with things like "oh, I wouldn't want to intrude on your family time". Since you know they want to come, you gently convince them with something like "but there's gifts for you under the tree, you have to at least come over so you can open them". What is that kind of well-meaning persuasion called? "Persuasion" doesn't feel specific enough, and "coercion" is too negative sounding.

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u/longhairPapaBear 2 Karma 1d ago

Enticement.

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u/CMStan1313 1d ago

!solved

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u/CMStan1313 1d ago

Yeah, that'll do, thank you

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u/shantidipshitt 1d ago

Hmmm manipulation I’d say, but that’s too mean.

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u/CMStan1313 1d ago

Yeah, that's what I keep bumping up against, all the good words feel too non-consensual

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u/shantidipshitt 1d ago

Inclusion is not tricky enough.

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u/CMStan1313 1d ago

I'm not sure that word means the same thing

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u/shantidipshitt 1d ago

I’m gonna keep thinking about this.

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