attraction
UK/əˈtɹækʃn̩/
attraction noun: the tendency to attract.
Noun
attraction (countable and uncountable, plural attractions)
- The tendency to attract.
- The Moon is held in its orbit by the attraction of the Earth's gravity.
- Synonyms:
- pull
- Antonyms:
- repellency
- The state of being attractive.
- I can't resist his attraction.
- 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.
- Star Tours is a very cool Disney World attraction.
- The sacrifice of pieces in order to expose the enemy king.
- 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.
- Our attraction to sugar makes it hard to stop eating it.
- Antonyms:
- repellency, repulsion
- Sexual or romantic desire (especially for a usually specified individual, kind of person, etc).
- I've always had an attraction to blondes.
- I don't think my husband has ever acted on any of his attractions.
- 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.
attraction meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
attraction in Hindi
- tendency to attract
- आकर्षण ākarṣaṇ
- feeling of being attracted
- आकर्षण ākarṣaṇ
- something which attracts
- आकर्षण ākarṣaṇ
attraction in Tamil
- attraction
- ஈர்ப்பு īrppu
attraction in Urdu
- attraction, allurement, drawing
- جذب jazb
attraction in Bengali
- attraction, pull, draw
- আকর্ষণ akorśon
More languagesFewer languages
- attraction in Telugu
- ఆకర్షణ ākarṣaṇa
- attraction in Malayalam
- ആകർഷണം
- attraction in Kannada
- ಸೆಳೆತ, ಸೆಳತ, ಸೆಳವು, ಸೆಳಪು
- attraction in Punjabi
- ਆਕਰਸ਼ਨ ākarśan
- attraction in Sanskrit
- आकर्षण ā́karṣaṇa
- attraction in Tagalog
- higom
Examples of attraction in a sentence
- And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- Murphy struggled with his attraction to men while remaining happily married all his life, daily negotiating the challenges of living in two locations simultaneously.2015 January 23, John Davis, Jennifer A. Greenhill, Jason D. LaFountain, A Companion to American Art, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 255:
- "I don't experience attraction the way most people do.2024 October 20, Kate, A Love Unspoken, DeepMisti Publication, →ISBN, page 98:
Synonyms of attraction
Antonyms
Forms of attraction
| plural | attractions |
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Origin of attraction
From Middle English attraccioun, from Old French attraction, from Latin attractio from past participle of attrahō (= ad + trahō), equivalent to attract + -ion.
Words formed from attraction
- aesthetic attraction
- attractional
- basin of attraction
- chemoattraction
- coattraction
- Coulomb attraction
- counterattraction
- fatal attraction
- genetic sexual attraction
- interattraction
- inverse attraction
- law of attraction
- local attraction
- nonattraction
- paronymic attraction
- photoattraction
- reattraction
- split attraction model
- star attraction
- tourist attraction
- unattraction
Phrases with attraction
Words that rhyme with attraction
Questions about attraction
- What does attraction mean?
- Attraction means the tendency to attract.
- What is attraction in Hindi?
- Attraction in Hindi is आकर्षण (ākarṣaṇ). See Attraction meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use attraction in a sentence?
- And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction.
- What part of speech is attraction?
- Attraction is a noun.
- How do you pronounce attraction?
- Attraction is pronounced /əˈtɹækʃn̩/ (UK).
- What is the plural of attraction?
- The plural of attraction is attractions.
Words near attraction in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: attraction (page history and authors); ஈர்ப்பு (Tamil) (page history and authors); جذب (Urdu) (page history and authors); আকর্ষণ (Bengali) (page history and authors); attraction (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); attraction (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਆਕਰਸ਼ਨ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); आकर्षण (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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