physical attraction

Questions about physical attraction

What does physical attraction mean?

physical attraction means "a desire for sexual intimacy".

What is another word for physical attraction?

Close synonyms include sexual desire, eros, concupiscence. 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 physical attraction a common word?

physical 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.