[at.trac.tion] n (14c) 1 a: the act, process, or power of attracting b: personal charm
2: the action or power of drawing forth a response: an attractive quality
3: a force acting mutually between particles of matter, tending to draw them together, and resisting their separation
4: something that attracts or is intended to attract people by appealing to their desires and tastes "coming ~s" syn attraction, affinity, sympathy mean the relationship existing between things or persons that are naturally or involuntarily drawn together. attraction implies the possession by one thing of a quality that pulls another to it "felt an attraction to danger". affinity implies a susceptibility or predisposition on the part of the one drawn "an affinity for mathematics". sympathy implies a reciprocal or natural relation between two things that are both susceptible to the same influence "two minds in sympathy".