tantalization

American  

[tan-tuhl-ahyz-ay-shuhn] / ˌtæn təl aɪzˈeɪ ʃən /

noun

1. the act of tantalizing or an instance of being tantalized.

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tantalization

Colleges with no V12 windfall, with or without an A-12 tantalization, had the choice of supporting teams of 4-Fs and 17-year-olds or giving up.

From Time Magazine Archive

‘I have faced tantalization these twenty years with a temper as mild as milk!’ said Japheth; ‘but such things as this don’t come short of devilry!’

From Wessex Tales by Hardy, Thomas

The sand hills were a constant tantalization; she loved them better than anything near Moonstone, and yet she could so seldom get to them.

From The Song of the Lark by Cather, Willa Sibert

It is not that Nature can become ever less lovely to your sight; but that the tantalization of her dangerous beauty, which you may enjoy only at a safe distance, exasperates at last.

From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio

What barbarous tantalization to compel them to thirst in the midst of the waters of abundance!

From Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration, and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America by Wentworth, William Charles