Attraction may refer to:
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Interpersonal attraction
Interpersonal attraction, as a part of social psychology, is the study of the attraction between people which leads to the development of platonic or romantic relationships. It is distinct from perceptions such as physical attractiveness, and ...
, the attraction between people which leads to friendships, platonic and romantic relationships.
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Physical attractiveness
Physical attractiveness is the degree to which a person's physical features are considered aesthetics, aesthetically pleasing or beauty, beautiful. The term often implies sexual attraction, sexual attractiveness or desirability, but can also be d ...
, attraction on the basis of beauty
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Sexual attraction
Sexual attraction is attraction on the basis of sexual desire or the quality of arousing such interest. Sexual attractiveness or sex appeal is an individual's ability to attract other people sexually, and is a factor in sexual selection or m ...
* Object or event that is attractive
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Tourist attraction
A tourist attraction is a place of interest that tourists visit, typically for its inherent or exhibited natural or cultural value, historical significance, natural or built beauty, offering leisure and amusement.
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, a place of interest where tourists visit
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Amusement park attraction
*Attraction in physics
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Electromagnetic attraction
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Magnetism
Magnetism is the class of physical attributes that occur through a magnetic field, which allows objects to attract or repel each other. Because both electric currents and magnetic moments of elementary particles give rise to a magnetic field, ...
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Gravity
In physics, gravity (), also known as gravitation or a gravitational interaction, is a fundamental interaction, a mutual attraction between all massive particles. On Earth, gravity takes a slightly different meaning: the observed force b ...
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Strong nuclear force
In nuclear physics and particle physics, the strong interaction, also called the strong force or strong nuclear force, is one of the four known fundamental interactions. It confines quarks into protons, neutrons, and other hadron particles, an ...
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Weak nuclear force
In nuclear physics and particle physics, the weak interaction, weak force or the weak nuclear force, is one of the four known fundamental interactions, with the others being electromagnetism, the strong interaction, and gravitation. It is th ...
Other uses
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Attraction basin (a.k.a. attractor), in dynamical systems
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Attraction (grammar)
Attraction, in linguistics, is a type of error in language production that incorrectly extends a feature from one word in a sentence to another. This can refer to agreement attraction, wherein a feature is assigned based on agreement with another w ...
, the process by which a relative pronoun takes on the case of its antecedent
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Attraction (horse) (foaled 2001)
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Attraction (2017 film), a Russian science fiction action film focusing upon an extraterrestrial spaceship crash-landing
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Attraction (2018 film), a Bulgarian romantic comedy film
See also
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Attractive nuisance doctrine
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Attract (disambiguation)
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Law of attraction (disambiguation)
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