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Another word for attractiveness

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Noun

  1. The power or quality of attracting

      1. The act or process of pulling:
      2. Drawing power; appeal
      3. (Slang) A means of gaining special advantage; influence:
      1. Witchcraft; sorcery
      2. Allure
      3. Bewitching charm; fascination
      1. The class of phenomena exhibited by a magnetic field.
      2. Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
      3. Power to attract; personal charm or allure
      1. Something that tempts or attracts with the promise of pleasure or reward:
      2. A device consisting of a bunch of feathers on the end of a long cord, often baited with food: it is used in falconry to recall the hawk
      3. Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
      1. (Archaic) A magic spell or charm
      2. Elegance, luxury, high fashion, etc. or their aura around a person, situation, etc.
      3. Exciting or mysterious attractiveness usually associated with striking physical beauty, luxury, or celebrity.
      1. An intensely interesting, attractive quality or trait.
      2. Strong attraction; charm; allure
      3. The state of being intensely interested or attracted:
      1. The act or practice of enticing, of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions.
      2. That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; an alluring object; as, an enticement to sin.
      1. Something that charms or delights greatly
      2. The act of enchanting or the feeling of being enchanted.
      3. A magic spell or charm
      1. A special advantage; an edge:
      2. One that attracts interest, customers, or spectators:
      3. (--- Games) A draw shot.
      1. A chanted word, phrase, or verse assumed to have magic power to help or hurt; incantation
      2. (Particle Physics) An individuating property of quarks and other elementary particles: it is expressed as a quantum number, with +1 used of a particle that has charm (charmed particle) and 0 used of one that does not
      3. An item worn for its supposed magical benefit, as in warding off evil; an amulet.
      1. A special quality of leadership that captures the popular imagination and inspires allegiance and devotion
      2. A special charm or allure that inspires fascination or devotion
      3. The ability to influence without the use of logic.
      1. A sound or an instrument made to imitate such a cry, used as a lure:
      2. Need or occasion:
      3. The strong attraction or appeal of a given activity or environment:
      1. The act of attracting or condition of being attracted
      2. The gravitational force exerted by one body on another.
      3. (Physics) The mutual action by which bodies or particles of matter tend to draw together or cohere
      1. A quality in a person or thing that arouses interest, sympathy, desire, etc.; attraction
      2. A resort to a higher authority or greater power, as for sanction, corroboration, or a decision:
      3. A call upon some authority or person for a decision, opinion, etc.
      1. The power to entice or attract; fascination
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Sentence Examples

  • The boulevard and park along the river add attractiveness to the city.

  • He had public and private audiences with the pope on the 9th of April and the 11th of May 1848, but recorded next to nothing in his diary concerning them, though numerous other entries show an eager interest in everything connected with the Roman Church, and private papers also indicate that he recognized at this time grave defects in the Church of England and a mysterious attractiveness in Roman Catholicism, going so far as to question whether he might not one day be a Roman Catholic himself.

  • He established an extraordinary reputation; his personality had a winning attractiveness; and he founded a school of mystics who powerfully affected Judaism after the master's death.

  • A monochrome loses much of its attractiveness when the color merges into a metal rim, or when the interior of a vase is covered with crude unpolished paste.

  • The city has a fine location, its natural attractiveness and mineral springs in the vicinity combining to make it a summer and health resort.

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