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:
“We should omit a main attraction in these books, if we said nothing of their humor. Of this indispensable pledge of sanity, without some leaven of which the abstruse thinker may justly be suspected of mysticism, fanaticism, or insanity, there is a superabundance in Carlyle.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular.... War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it.... War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)