In general, an attraction draws one object towards another one.A term may have the following specific meanings:
- In physics, attraction may refer to gravity or to the electromagnetic force
- Attraction (emotion) or attractiveness
- Interpersonal attraction, the attraction between people which leads to friendships and romantic relationships
- Physical attraction, attraction on the basis of beauty
- Sexual attraction, attraction on the basis of sexual desire
- Tourist attraction, a place of interest where tourists visit
- Amusement park attraction
- Attraction (grammar), the process by which a relative pronoun takes on — that is, is "attracted to" — the case of its antecedent
- Law of Attraction (New Age), a belief that mental disposition will attract similar results
- Attraction (horse) (foaled 2001)
- The Attractions, backing band for Elvis Costello
Famous quotes containing the word attraction:
“Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)
“Until now when we have started to talk about the uniqueness of America we have almost always ended by comparing ourselves to Europe. Toward her we have felt all the attraction and repulsions of Oedipus.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)