attraction

Meaning

Noun

• The tendency to attract.
• The feeling of being attracted.
• An event, location, or business that has a tendency to draw interest from visitors, and in many cases, local residents.
• The sacrifice of pieces in order to expose the enemy king.
• 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.

Related

Similar words

• charm
• pull

Opposite words

• repulsion

Origin

• From Middle English attraccioun, from Old French attraction, from Latin attractio from past participle of attrahō (= ad + trahō), equivalent to attract + -ion