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. Tahir Zaman:

   The attraction is not there anymore. The (government) is not offering regular jobs for players.

2. Michael Ochs:

   Whenever Desi would come around or there would be any kind of interaction between them, there was always this tension underneath the surface, i felt that she really loved him and he really loved her. There was an attraction that they had for years after they both remarried to other spouses… It was kind of a bittersweet thing with both of them.

3. Pope Francis:

   As a result, the great ideas which once inspired Europe seem to have lost their attraction, only to be replaced by the bureaucratic technicalities of its institutions.

4. Nancy Pelosi:

   The presidential race is the main event. It has everything : It has glamour, it has money, it has power -- it's showbiz. It's an attraction, and off years are like the lounge act. Who goes there -- right ?

5. Italo Calvino:

   The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.