Synonyms for attraction
əˈtræk ʃənat·trac·tion

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1. attractionnoun

   Antonyms:
   repulsion

2. attractionnoun

   The Moon is held in its orbit by the attraction of the Earth's gravity

   Antonyms:
   repulsion

3. attractionnoun

   I felt a strange attraction towards the place

   Antonyms:
   repulsion

4. attractionnoun

   The new mall should be a major attraction

   Antonyms:
   repulsion

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1. attraction

   Affection is kindly feeling, deep, tender, and constant, going out to some person or object, being less fervent and ardent than love, whether applied to persons or things. Love is an intense and absorbing emotion, drawing one toward a person or object and causing one to appreciate, delight in, and crave the presence or possession of the person or object loved, and to desire to please and benefit the person, or to advance the cause, truth, or other object of affection; it is the yearning or outgoing of soul toward something that is regarded as excellent, beautiful, or desirable; love may be briefly defined as strong and absorbing affection for and attraction toward a person or object. Love may denote the sublimest and holiest spiritual affection as when we are taught that "God is love." Charity has so far swung aside from this original meaning that probably it never can be recalled (compare BENEVOLENCE). The Revised Version uses love in place of charity in 1 Cor. xiii, and elsewhere. Love is more intense, absorbing, and tender than friendship, more intense, impulsive, and perhaps passionate than affection; we speak of fervent love, but of deep or tender affection, or of close, firm, strong friendship. Love is used specifically for personal affection between the sexes in the highest sense, the love that normally leads to marriage, and subsists throughout all happy wedded life. Love can never properly denote mere animal passion, which is expressed by such words as appetite, desire, lust. One may properly be said to have love for animals, for inanimate objects, or for abstract qualities that enlist the affections, as we speak of love for a horse or a dog, for mountains, woods, ocean, or of love of nature, and love of virtue. Love of articles of food is better expressed by liking, as love, in its full sense, expresses something spiritual and reciprocal, such as can have no place in connection with objects that minister merely to the senses. Compare ATTACHMENT; FRIENDSHIP.

   See synonyms for ANTIPATHY; ENMITY; HATRED.

   Synonyms:
   affection, attachment, charity, devotion, fondness, friendship, liking, love, regard, tenderness

   Preposition:
   Love of country; for humanity; love to God and man.

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1. attraction

   Synonyms:
   inducement, influence, adduction, inclination, disposition, charm, beauty, allurement

   Antonyms:
   repulsion, disinclination, aversion, indisposition, deformity, repugnance

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1. attraction, attractive forcenoun

   the force by which one object attracts another

   Synonyms:
   attractive feature, attractive force, drawing card, attracter, attractiveness, magnet, attractor, draw

   Antonyms:
   repulsion, repulsive force

2. attractionnoun

   an entertainment that is offered to the public

   Synonyms:
   attractive feature, attractive force, drawing card, attracter, attractiveness, magnet, attractor, draw

   Antonyms:
   repulsion, repulsive force

3. attraction, attractivenessnoun

   the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts

   "her personality held a strange attraction for him"

   Synonyms:
   attractive feature, attractive force, drawing card, attracter, attractiveness, magnet, attractor, draw

   Antonyms:
   repulsive force, repulsion

4. attraction, attractor, attracter, attractive feature, magnetnoun

   a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts

   "flowers are an attractor for bees"

   Synonyms:
   attractive feature, attractive force, drawing card, attracter, attractiveness, magnet, attractor, draw

   Antonyms:
   repulsive force, repulsion

5. drawing card, draw, attraction, attractor, attracternoun

   an entertainer who attracts large audiences

   "he was the biggest drawing card they had"

   Synonyms:
   attractive feature, leader, standoff, lot, drawing card, attractor, haul, draw play, hook, tie, draw, hooking, draw poker, attractiveness, haulage, attracter, magnet, loss leader, attractive force

   Antonyms:
   repulsive force, repulsion

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1. attractionnoun

   Synonyms:
   attracting, drawing

2. attractionnoun

   Synonyms:
   allurement, lure, fascination, charm, enticement, witchery, attractiveness

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1. attractionnoun

   Synonyms:
   allurement, fascination, charm, inducement, witchery, magnetism, enticement, lure

   Antonyms:
   repulsion, repellence, repugnance, antipathy

2. attractionnoun

   Synonyms:
   chemism, affinity (chemical attraction)

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1. List of paraphrases for "attraction":

   attractiveness, attracting, attract, pull, appeal, lure, attractions, amusement, charm, seduction, draw

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How to use attraction in a sentence?

1. Arthur Levine:

   Lines are a function of three things: the number of guests in a park, the interest in a particular attraction and the ability of the park to move people through the line.

2. Tonatiuh Guillen:

   There's ... a government structure of bipolar migration policy, there are factors of attraction and rejection, and we're in the sandwich right now.

3. Noah Rose:

   I was surprised that immediate habitat didn't have much of an effect -- mosquitoes in forests and nearby towns had similar behavior, we thought that maybe moving into human landscapes would be a key driver of attraction to human hosts. But it seems like mosquitoes fly back and forth too readily between these habitats for their behavior to diverge in many cases.

4. Patrick Michel:

   These small pieces are ejected but because they follow each other, their mutual attraction is high enough to make them reaccumulate and form a family of aggregate asteroids after a few hours, this is how asteroid families form in the belt.

5. Archbishop Charles Chaput:

   We hope that everyone feels welcome and certainly people who have experienced same-sex attraction are welcome like everyone else.