attraction
/əˈtɹækʃn̩/ noun
Forms attractions
- noun The tendency to attract. “The Moon is held in its orbit by the attraction of the Earth's gravity.”
- noun The state of being attractive. “I can't resist his attraction.”
- noun (countable) An event, location, or business that has a tendency to draw interest from visitors, and in many cases, local residents. “The new mall should be a major attraction.”
- noun (chess) The sacrifice of pieces in order to expose the enemy king.
- noun (uncountable) The feeling of being attracted (to something), that is, being drawn toward it; a desire to be near or involved (in something). “I kept returning there because I felt a strange attraction towards the place.”
- noun (in particular, countable or uncountable) Sexual or romantic desire (especially for a usually specified individual, kind of person, etc). “I've always had an attraction to blondes.”
- noun (linguistics) An error in language production that incorrectly extends a feature from one word in a sentence to another, e.g. when a verb agrees with a noun other than its subject.
Synonyms
pull charisma charm feature desire attractive force attractiveness attractor attracter attractive feature magnet drawing card draw
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English attraccioun, from Old French attraction, from Latin attractio from past participle of attrahō (= ad + trahō), equivalent to attract + -ion.
Webster’s 1913
- noun 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.
- noun The act or property of attracting; the effect of the power or operation of attraction. Newton.
Etymology [L. attractio: cf. F. attraction.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “attraction”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details