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Attraction

noun

The force by which one object attracts another. Synonym: attractive force. Antonym: repulsion.

An entertainment that is offered to the public.

The quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts. Synonym: attractiveness.

A characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts. Synonyms: attracter, attractive feature, attractor, magnet.

An entertainer who attracts large audiences. Synonyms: attracter, attractor, draw, drawing card.

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"Attraction" Quotes from Famous Books

... attention, the persistence with which all eyes seemed to be turned in the same direction, to be fixed upon the same point of attraction; and as she followed that current of curiosity which magnetized the whole assemblage, the floor as well as the galleries, she saw what everybody was staring at so ...

— The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Alphonse Daudet

... based upon love; and love, though naturally and normally involving the element of sexual attraction, ought to include also other and deeper elements. A Christian man who has lived a clean and disciplined life ought to be sufficiently master of his passions to avoid mistaking a merely temporary infatuation for such a genuine spiritual affinity ...

— Religious Reality • A.E.J. Rawlinson

... moth or candle was becoming a moot point. It was moot to me, watching him and Miss Sabine Monroy at Charleston throughout the month of March. The casual observer would have said that she was "playing him up," as a young poet of my acquaintance puts it; but I was not casual. For me Vaness had the attraction of a theorem, and I was looking rather deeply into him and ...

— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, editors

... lads have told you what they have seen in Belgium; and as they are just now busily employed, I shall endeavor to tell you our doings and enjoyments for the last day in this noble old city. We have been to see St. James's Church, where the great attraction is the tomb of Rubens. The altar is exquisitely fine, and was the work of Duquesnoy. Rubens brought it from Italy. Over the tomb is the famous Holy Family, in which Rubens has introduced himself as St. George, his father as Jerome, his wives as Martha and Magdalene, his grandfather ...

— Young Americans Abroad - Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, - Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland • Various

... constables,—very slowly making his way along the pavement. His movement, indeed, was so slow that any one watching him would have come to the conclusion that that particular part of the High Street had some attraction for him at that special moment. Alas, alas! How age will alter the spirit of a man! Twenty years since Frank Gresham would have thought any one to be a mean miscreant who would have interposed a policeman between him and his foe. But it is to be feared that while selecting that stick he ...

— The Prime Minister • Anthony Trollope

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