Synonyms for incitement
Most common
motive provocation instigation inducement suggestion exhortation abetment
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Provocation
provocation, impulse, instigation, incentive, motive, inducement, provocative, goad, encouragement, impetus, spur, stimulus, incitation, stimulant
2. Enticement
Other
exhortation, excitement, suggestion, abetment, kindle-fire dated
Definitions
- n. 1
A call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal way.
The sheriff was constantly goading me into shooting trespassers, which should surely count as incitement at the very least.
Forms
- Plural
- incitements → provocations, impulses, instigations, incentives…
Example sentences
- motive Now we are better able to understand their motive.
- provocation She lost her temper at the slightest provocation.
- suggestion The first suggestion proved to be too complicated.
- exhortation What, then, is the exhortation I give you? I urge you to be saved.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| incitement | rising | |
| motive | steady | |
| provocation | steady | |
| instigation | falling | |
| inducement | falling | |
| suggestion | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- spur1, goad1
- 6 letters
- motive2
- 7 letters
- impulse2, impetus3
- 8 letters
- stimulus3, abetment
- 9 letters
- incentive3, stimulant3
- 10 letters
- excitement3, suggestion3, persuasive3, persuasion3, inducement3, enticement3, incitation
- 11 letters
- provocative4, provocation4, instigation4, exhortation4
- 13 letters
- encouragement4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (motive2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- incitation
- Italiano
- incitamento
- Español
- aliciente
- Deutsch
- Andrang
- Català
- impuls