Meaning

The tendency to attract..

Definitions by Sense

1. The tendency to attract.
2. The feeling of being attracted (to something).
3. (countable) An event, location, or business that has a tendency to draw interest from visitors, and in many cases, local residents.
4. (chess) The sacrifice of pieces in order to expose the enemy king.
5. (linguistics) 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.

Example Sentences

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

I felt a strange attraction towards the place.

When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.

The new mall should be a major attraction.

Star Tours is a very cool Disney World attraction.

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• attractions

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Use attraction when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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