Attraction

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun That which attracts; an attractive object or feature.

II. Attraction ·noun The act or property of attracting; the effect of the power or operation of attraction.

III. Attraction ·noun The power or act of alluring, drawing to, inviting, or engaging; an attractive quality; as, the attraction of beauty or eloquence.

IV. Attraction ·noun An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.

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