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Antonyms for attraction

Grammar : Noun
Spell : uh-trak-shuhn
Phonetic Transcription : əˈtræk ʃən


Definition of attraction

Origin :
  • late 14c., from French attraction, from Latin attractionem (nominative attractio) "a drawing together," noun of action from past participle stem of attrahere (see attract). Originally a medical word, "absorption by the body;" meaning "action of drawing to" is from 1540s (again medical); extended to magnetic, then figuratively to personal (c.1600) qualities. Meaning "a thing which draws a crowd, interesting or amusing exhibition" is from 1829, a sense that developed in English and soon transferred to the French equivalent of the word.
  • noun ability to draw attention; something that draws attention
Example sentences :
  • You will be the only attraction at this performance, and I have only you to count on for the receipts.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • A ton on some other planet, where the attraction of gravity is less, does not weigh half a ton.
  • Extract from : « Pax Vobiscum » by Henry Drummond
  • The weight of a load depends upon the attraction of the earth.
  • Extract from : « Pax Vobiscum » by Henry Drummond
  • The place has no attraction for me without you, and it was yours first.
  • Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
  • The earth-house had no longer any attraction for Steenie: the bonny man was not there; he was risen!
  • Extract from : « Heather and Snow » by George MacDonald
  • Sometimes he had found himself wondering at the phenomenon of her attraction for him.
  • Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • The gravity-plates for repulsion were those in the helmet; for attraction, those in the boot-soles.
  • Extract from : « The Bluff of the Hawk » by Anthony Gilmore
  • I was not insensible to all his powers of attraction; I thought him one of the most amiable of men.
  • Extract from : « Beaux and Belles of England » by Mary Robinson
  • Water had no attraction for him, save as a pleasant means of taking exercise.
  • Extract from : « Jan and Her Job » by L. Allen Harker
  • They contain a large quantity of honey, and so prove an attraction to bees.
  • Extract from : « Harper's Young People, August 3, 1880 » by Various

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