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Attraction

Attraction Meaning & Definition
Attraction Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Attraction?

[n] the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts; "her personality held a strange attraction for him"
[n] a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts people
[n] an entertainment that is offered to the public
[n] an entertainer who attracts large audiences; "he was the biggest drawing card they had"
[n] the force by which one object attracts another

Synonyms | Synonyms for Attraction: attractive feature | attractive force | attractiveness | attractor | attractor | draw | drawing card

Related Terms | Find terms related to Attraction: acceptability | accord | affinity | agacerie | agreeability | agreeable | allure | allurement | alluring | appeal | appealing | attractant | attracting | attractive | attractiveness | bait | beauteous | beautiful | beckoning | beguilement | beguiling | bewitchery | bewitching | bewitchment | blandishment | bonny | cajolery | call | captivating | captivation | charisma | charm | charming | charmingness | Circean | come-hither | comely | come-on | concord | delight | desirability | draft | draw | drawing | drawing power | drayage | enchanting | enchantment | engaging | entertainment | enthrallment | enticement | enticing | entrapment | extraction | fair | fascinating | fascination | fetching | flirtation | forbidden fruit | glamorous | glamour | good-looking | goodly | gravitation | handsome | harmony | haulage | hauling | heaving | hook | inducement | interest | interesting | inveiglement | invitation | inviting | likability | likable | likely | lovability | lovely | lure | magnetic | magnetism | mesmeric | performance | pleasing | pleasure | prepossessing | presentation | pretty | provocative | provocativeness | pulchritudinous | pull | pulling | pulling power | seducement | seduction | seductive | seductiveness | sex appeal | show | sightly | simpatico | siren | snare | snaring | sympathy | taking | tantalization | tantalizing | teasing | temptation | tempting | towage | towing | traction | tractive power | tugging | tug-of-war | unobjectionableness | winning | winning ways | winsomeness | witchery | wooing

See Also | affinity | affinity | allure | allurement | attention | binding | bond | characteristic | chemical bond | come-on | counterattraction | drawing power | entertainer | enticement | fascination | feature | force | gravitation | gravitational attraction | gravitational force | gravity | lure | magnetic attraction | magnetic force | magnetism | quality | show | temptingness | travelog | travelogue | van der Waal's forces

Attraction In Webster's Dictionary

\At*trac"tion\, n. [L. attractio: cf. F. attraction.] 1. (Physics) An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation. Note: Attraction is exerted at both sensible and insensible distances, and is variously denominated according to its qualities or phenomena. Under attraction at sensible distances, there are, -- (1.) {Attraction of gravitation}, which acts at all distances throughout the universe, with a force proportional directly to the product of the masses of the bodies and inversely to the square of their distances apart. (2.) {Magnetic}, {diamagnetic}, and {electrical attraction}, each of which is limited in its sensible range and is polar in its action, a property dependent on the quality or condition of matter, and not on its quantity. Under attraction at insensible distances, there are, -- (1.) {Adhesive attraction}, attraction between surfaces of sensible extent, or by the medium of an intervening substance. (2.) {Cohesive attraction}, attraction between ultimate particles, whether like or unlike, and causing simply an aggregation or a union of those particles, as in the absorption of gases by charcoal, or of oxygen by spongy platinum, or the process of solidification or crystallization. The power in adhesive attraction is strictly the same as that of cohesion. (3.) {Capillary attraction}, attraction causing a liquid to rise, in capillary tubes or interstices, above its level outside, as in very small glass tubes, or a sponge, or any porous substance, when one end is inserted in the liquid. It is a special case of cohesive attraction. (4.) {Chemical attraction}, or {affinity}, that peculiar force which causes elementary atoms, or groups of atoms, to unite to form molecules. 2. The act or property of attracting; the effect of the power or operation of attraction. --Newton. 3. The power or act of alluring, drawing to, inviting, or engaging; an attractive quality; as, the attraction of beauty or eloquence. 4. That which attracts; an attractive object or feature. Syn: Allurement; enticement; charm.

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