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prompting

noun

1 prompting

Persuasion formulated as a suggestion.

synonym: suggestion.

Roget 505: memory, remembrance; retention, retentiveness; tenacity; veteris vestigia flammae [Lat.]; tablets of the memory; readiness.    reminiscence, recognition, recollection, rememoration; recurrence, flashback; ... show more

Roget 615: motive, springs of action, wellsprings of action.    reason, ground, call, principle; by end, by purpose; mainspring, primum mobile [Lat.], keystone; the why and the wherefore; ... show more

2 prompting

A cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken):
— The audience could hear his prompting.

synonym: prompt.


Moby thesaurus: actuation, aide-memoire, animation, cue, direction, flapper, hint, influence, inner-direction, jogger, memorandum, motivation, moving, other-direction, prompt, prompter, remembrance, remembrancer, reminder, stimulation ... show more.

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