tantalization

The entire episode was an exercise in methodical tantalization, as much for the couple as for the viewer.

Through my absurd concern for, I hardly knew what, her adorable tantalization seethed in me like an electric current.

To live for a time among them would be a delight; to glance at them for a moment was tantalization.

Rose had no idea of tantalization, or she would have held him a while in doubt.

Such tantalization endured by yourselves, or by any class of men, would have wrought rebellion, and in the end a bloody revolution.