Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - attraction

 noun  Date: 14th century  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 Synonyms:  ~, affinity, sympathy mean the relationship existing between things or persons that are naturally or involuntarily drawn together. ~ implies the possession by one thing of a quality that pulls another to it felt an ~ 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.