attraction
pronunciation
How to pronounce attraction in British English:
UK [əˈtrækʃn]
How to pronounce attraction in American English:
US [əˈtrækʃn]
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- Noun:
- the force by which one object attracts another
- an entertainment that is offered to the public
- the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts
- a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts
- an entertainer who attracts large audiences
Word Origin
- attraction (n.)
- late 14c., from French attraction, from Latin attractionem (nominative attractio) "a drawing together," noun of action from past participle stem of attrahere (see attract). Originally a medical word, "absorption by the body;" meaning "action of drawing to" is from 1540s (again medical); extended to magnetic, then figuratively to personal (c. 1600) qualities. Meaning "a thing which draws a crowd, interesting or amusing exhibition" is from 1829, a sense that developed in English and soon transferred to the French equivalent of the word.
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Example
- 1. Much of the attraction between the sexes is chemistry .
- 2. There will be mutual understanding and constant physical attraction .
- 3. It was such an attraction that brighton soon rivalled bath .
- 4. But the pipelines are the main attraction .
- 5. To kant we owe the completed theory of matter as the unity of repulsion and attraction .