chemical attraction

1. 1.

   the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule

   “basic dyes have an affinity for wool and silk”

   Synonymsaffinity

   Broaderforce

Questions about chemical attraction

What does chemical attraction mean?

chemical attraction means "the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule".

What is another word for chemical attraction?

Close synonyms include affinity. 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.

Is chemical attraction a common word?

chemical attraction is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.