attrahent

Meanings

Adjective

• That attract; draw, attracting.

Noun

• An attrahent agent; something that attracts.

Origin

• From attrahent-, the stem of the Latin attrahēns ("drawing, pulling, or dragging to or toward with force”; “drawing”, “alluring”, “leading”, “bringing”, “moving”, “attracting"), the present active participle of attrahō, on whose perfect passive participial stem the English verb attract is modelled.