Synonyms for attractions
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : uh-trak-shuhn |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˈtræk ʃən |
Top 10 synonyms for attractions Other synonyms for the word attractions
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for attractions
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