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PRONUNCIATION OF TANTALIZATION

tantalization  [ˌtæntəlaɪˈzeɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TANTALIZATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tantalization is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TANTALIZATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of tantalization in the English dictionary

The definition of tantalization in the dictionary is the act or process of teasing or making frustrated, as by tormenting with the sight of something greatly desired but inaccessible.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TANTALIZATION


authorization
ˌɔːθəraɪˈzeɪʃən
characterization
ˌkærɪktəraɪˈzeɪʃən
civilization
ˌsɪvɪlaɪˈzeɪʃən
customization
ˌkʌstəmaɪˈzeɪʃən
globalization
ˌɡləʊbəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
hospitalisation
ˌhɒspɪtəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
hospitalization
ˌhɒspɪtəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
hybridization
ˌhaɪbrɪdaɪˈzeɪʃən
localization
ˌləʊkəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
novelization
ˌnɒvəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
optimisation
ˌɒptɪmaɪˈzeɪʃən
optimization
ˌɒptɪmaɪˈzeɪʃən
organisation
ˌɔːɡənaɪˈzeɪʃən
organization
ˌɔːɡənaɪˈzeɪʃən
realization
ˌrɪəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
specialization
ˌspeʃəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
stabilization
ˌsteɪbɪlaɪˈzeɪʃən
synchronization
ˌsɪŋkrənaɪˈzeɪʃən
utilization
ˌjuːtɪlaɪˈzeɪʃən
visualization
ˌvɪʒʊəlaɪˈzeɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TANTALIZATION

tant pis
Tanta
tantalate
tantalic
tantalic acid
tantalisation
tantaliser
tantalisingly
tantalism
tantalite
tantalize
tantalizer
tantalizing
tantalizingly
tantalous
tantalum
tantalus
tantamount
tantara
tanti

WORDS THAT END LIKE TANTALIZATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation

Synonyms and antonyms of tantalization in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tantalization» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TANTALIZATION

Find out the translation of tantalization to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tantalization from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tantalization» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

tantalization
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tantalization
570 millions of speakers

English

tantalization
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Tantalization
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

tantalization
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

tantalization
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tantalization
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

tantalization
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tantalization
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tantalisasi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Quälen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

tantalization
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

tantalization
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tantalization
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tantalization
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

tantalization
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टांटलायझेशन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gösterip vermeme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tantalization
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tantalization
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

tantalization
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tantalization
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

tantalization
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tantalization
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tantalization
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tantalization
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tantalization

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TANTALIZATION»

The term «tantalization» is used very little and occupies the 185.997 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TANTALIZATION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tantalization

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TANTALIZATION»

Discover the use of tantalization in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tantalization and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Playing with Desire: Christopher Marlowe and the Art of ...
Examining Marlowe's plays and his major poems, Tromly uses Renaissance mythography, a study of literary sources (especially Ovid), performance history, and social history to demonstrate the centrality of the Tantalus myth to Marlowe's ...
Frederic B. Tromly, 1998
2
The People's Medical Lighthouse: A Series of Popular and ...
Then seminal emissions, masturbation, and other evils would cease, and much of misery would be spared the human race. SEXUAL TANTALIZATION— SUPPRESSING ELECTRIC EMISSION. THERE is quite too prevalent, in all classes of ...
Harmon Knox Root, 1856
3
Tantalizing Times: Excitements, Disconnects, and Discontents ...
Tantalization includes the feeling or fantasy of something like, "hey, this could happen." One appears poised to obtain some or all of this. Yet, these urges go unsatisfied or uncompleted in important ways. But, the closeness to acquisition ...
V. Barry Dauphin, 2006
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Melville's Anatomies
And this thought it must have been which suggested to Ahab that wild exclamation of his, when one morning turning away from surveying poor Queequeg — "Oh, devilish tantalization of the gods!" (480-81) The chapter begins with a ...
Samuel Otter, 1999
5
Anxious Identity: Education, Difference, and Politics
With respect to whether the binarism is functional, bricolage shows itself as a project of the impossibility of tantalization. If the concept of the binarism is functional, it signals that its application can be implied in the analyzing of cultural  ...
Ho-chia Chueh, 2004
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LOVE'S CONFUSIONS
Erotic desire is inextricably bound up with excitement; excitement with tantalization. Yet tantalization is a kind of torture— an “enlivening torture,” as Adam Phillips calls it, that re- kindles and refreshes desire, and so sustains it.3 Since flirtation, ...
C.D.C. REEVE, 2009
7
Body and Soul: A Sympathetic History of American Spiritualism
Possessed of desires that were never fully gratified; aspirations never reaching their ideals; loves severed, but not destroyed; hopes disappointed, but not obliterated—it seemed to exist only as a splendid future and tantalization, unless it were ...
Robert S. Cox, 2003
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The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and ...
Yet the “devilish tantalization” that Ahab identifies in Queequeg's bodily text must have a material component: as Casarino argues, “Both meaning and value need first to.
Hester Blum, 2008
9
Follow the Yellow Brick Road: How to Change for the Better ...
In this respect, I have found that wizards have at least three interrelated components: imagination, tantalization and satisfaction. Let's take a closer look at each of these, beginning first with imagination. When we “fall in love” with someone, we ...
Sam Alibrando, 2007
10
Mourning, Spirituality and Psychic Change: A New Object ...
This primal and eroticized intensity when personified is the exciting object's demonic tantalization. This tantalization operates in combination with the exciting object's unavailability as a truly responsive object. Such constant unavailability ...
Susan Kavaler-Adler, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TANTALIZATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tantalization is used in the context of the following news items.
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Madame Bovary shops and cheats in a relatable tale of consumption
The tale of a dispirited doctor's wife (Mia Wasikowska) seduced into adultery and the trivial tantalization of materialism may be set in the 19th century, but as ... «MetroNews Canada, Jul 15»
2
Wolfgang Tillmans' 'Dan' at the BMA shakes the viewer while …
Though the figure is faceless and visually more structurelike than human, its effect of unease and tantalization humanizes us in its presence. And it's just that ... «Baltimore City Paper, Mar 15»
3
Colby Wilson's Atlanta Braves Report: John Smoltz goes to the MLB …
Oh, the tantalization that comes with a new year though. Maybe Grilli returns to All-Star form. Maybe Pierzynski can hold it together. Maybe Dian Toscano is this ... «Clarksville Online, Jan 15»
4
Hangar 24 releases 2014 Pugachev's Cobra
With live music from local bands The Higgs and Coleslaw, and food from the BaconMania truck, attendees settled in for a long day of taste bud tantalization. «Examiner.com, Dec 14»
5
As Easy As PDP (To Defeat) By Sonala Olumhense
A transformation was promised four years ago, but in its place, Nigerians got a Tantalization Agenda. Fifteen years ago, the Nigerian president and his wife ... «SaharaReporters.com, Nov 14»
6
'Gypsy Boy' sequel equals the first
He didn't elaborate, and I wondered if he could deliver on that delicious tantalization. I shouldn't have doubted. Beginning with a brief recap that also serves as a ... «Dallas Voice, Aug 14»
7
Review Roundup: MR. BURNS at The Almeida
Mark Shenton of The Stage: "It's that fine line between tantalization and torture," says one character of the piece they are creating in the middle act. I couldn't put ... «Broadway World, Jun 14»
8
New Paltz Transportation Implementation Committee searches for …
It would eliminate the tantalization and frustration drivers feel when they see a store they want to go to but are blocked by an impassible curb. For instance, the ... «New Paltz Times, Feb 14»
9
Motorcyclist accused of threatening to stab driver in argument at gas …
... true injustice and the truth and publication of it should always surmount the tantalization of reality for personal attention by those who need it to feel complete. «Charleston Post Courier, Dec 13»
10
Sorting the Sunday Pile: Raiders should roll dice with Terrelle Pryor
And it's unfair to Flynn that he doesn't possess as much tantalization as Pryor but that's life in the NFL. What might happen is always much more intriguing than ... «CBSSports.com, Aug 13»

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