Attraction
[ə'trækʃ(ə)n] or [ə'trækʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts; 'her personality held a strange attraction for him'.
(noun.) a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts; 'flowers are an attractor for bees'.
(noun.) an entertainment that is offered to the public.
(noun.) the force by which one object attracts another.
Typist: Lolita--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) The act or property of attracting; the effect of the power or operation of attraction.
(n.) The power or act of alluring, drawing to, inviting, or engaging; an attractive quality; as, the attraction of beauty or eloquence.
(n.) That which attracts; an attractive object or feature.
Editor: Warren
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Attracting, drawing.[2]. Allurement, lure, fascination, charm, enticement, witchery, attractiveness.
Editor: Pratt
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Inducement, influence, adduction, inclination, disposition, charm, beauty,allurement
ANT:Repulsion, disinclination, aversion, indisposition, deformity, repugnance
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Examples
- Everything that arose before his mind drifted him on, faster and faster, more and more steadily, to the terrible attraction. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Ursula had apprehended him with a fine FRISSON of attraction. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The influence of the fresh air, and the attraction of some flowers gathered from a grave, soon quieted the child. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There is no apparent relation between effects so dissimilar; yet the steps of progress can be distinctly traced, from the attraction of a feather to the development of the electric telegraph. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Ah, it is I who am the attraction—not Melnos! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- With Peter the Great (1682-1725) the empire of Muscovy broke away from her Tartar traditions and entered the sphere of French attraction. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- John Baptist rose and moved towards it, as if it had a good attraction for him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The presence of soft iron within the armature (Section 296) causes greater attraction between the armature and the outside magnet, and hence greater force of motion. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Seeing that the prisoner seemed the center of attraction I halted to view the proceedings. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- What, then, would be the orbit of a planet under a central attraction varying as the inverse square of the distance? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- After the first century B.C. the line of greater attraction and least resistance lay for a time towards the north of the Caspian. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Highbury, that airy, cheerful, happy-looking Highbury, would be his constant attraction. Jane Austen. Emma.
- In that county there was enough to be seen to occupy the chief of their three weeks; and to Mrs. Gardiner it had a peculiarly strong attraction. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I suspect that the real attraction was a large library of fine books, which was left to dust and spiders since Uncle March died. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- All Jos's blood tingled with delight, as he surveyed this victim to his attractions. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- At your age, and with your attractions, is it possible for you to sentence yourself to a single life? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- To have resisted such attractions, to have withstood such tenderness! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- How much share have the attractions of Nature ever had in the pleasurable or painful interests and emotions of ourselves or our friends? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- For Edison, in spite of the achievement with which its name will forever be connected, it had lost all its attractions and all its possibilities. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It had given them a child; but it had not detracted from the personal attractions of my sister. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The remark being made to me in consequence of my being next him as we walked, I assented and enumerated its chief attractions. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The Glacier National Park is the latest addition to the series of great natural attractions which the United States Government has been acquiring for years. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He is ceremonious, stately, most polite on every occasion to my Lady, and holds her personal attractions in the highest estimation. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You use the word, ma'am, I have myself used,' said Rokesmith, with a glance at Bella, 'when you speak of Miss Wilfer's attractions there. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I should have thought those larger windows of the drawing-room and dining-room would have had more attractions for him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- And it is not worth while to forsake justice and virtue for the attractions of poetry, any more than for the sake of honour or wealth. Plato. The Republic.
- The accidents of the morning had helped his frustrated imagination to shape an employment for himself which had several attractions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And yet a married woman, possessing your attractions, shuts her eyes (and sparklers too), and goes and runs her delicate-formed head against a wall. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- That pretty little village offered at the moment many attractions as a possible Chicago. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Edited by Emily