prompting

Plural: promptings

Noun

• persuasion formulated as a suggestion
• a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken)
  • "the audience could hear his prompting"
• The action of saying something to persuade, encourage, or remind someone to do or say something.
• The action of inputting prompts to an artificial intelligence system.

Verb

• give an incentive for action
• serve as the inciting cause of
• assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned
• present participle and gerund of prompt

Synonyms

actuate, cue, incite, inspire, instigate, motivate, move, prompt, propel, remind, suggestion