Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Attraction (Motion towards, actively; force causing to draw closer)

Nouns
  • attraction, attractiveness
  • attractivity
  • drawing to, pulling towards, adduction. electrical attraction, electricity, static electricity, static, static cling
  • magnetism, magnetic attraction
  • gravity, attraction of gravitation. [objects which attract by physical force] lodestone, loadstone, lodestar, loadstar
  • magnet, permanent magnet, siderite, magnetite
  • electromagnet
  • magnetic coil, voice coil
  • magnetic dipole
  • motor coil, rotor, stator. electrical charge
  • positive charge, negative charge. magnetic pole
  • north pole, south pole
  • magnetic monopole.
Verbs
  • attract, draw
  • draw towards, pull towards, drag towards
  • adduce.
Adjectives
  • attracting etc. v.
  • attrahent, attractive, adducent, adductive. centrifugal.