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Antonyms for attractions

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

Definition of attractions

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 :
  • Still, on the whole, the village is not without its attractions.
  • Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • They heard the whispers of mercy, and felt the attractions of grace.
  • Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. II » by Francis Augustus Cox
  • By the kindness of her nature, as well as by her attractions, she had won his heart.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson » by Robert Southey
  • Ask the lover who kneels in homage to one who has no attractions for others.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume V (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Hence the attractions of towns or the delights of travel empty our villages.
  • Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield
  • Her beauties were ripened, and her attractions spread themselves in the face of day.
  • Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin
  • I will dazzle her senses with all the attractions that the globe of earth has to boast.
  • Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin
  • The refinement and the multiplicity of pleasures also diminish the attractions of marriage.
  • Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
  • To be told that a thing was dangerous was to add to its attractions.
  • Extract from : « Jan and Her Job » by L. Allen Harker
  • In association, similarities and attractions are felt and differences are forgotten.
  • Extract from : « Latin America and the United States » by Elihu Root

Synonyms for attractions

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