attraction

Other forms of attraction

plural

attractions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about attraction

What does attraction mean?

attraction means "the force by which one object attracts another". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in attraction?

attraction has 3 syllables: at-trac-tion. The stress falls on "trac". In IPA it is /əˈtɹækʃən/.

What is another word for attraction?

Close synonyms include attractive force, attractiveness, attractor, attracter, attractive feature. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of attraction?

The recorded antonyms are repulsion.

Is attraction a common word?

attraction is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with attraction?

4 words rhyme with attraction. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.