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Attractiveness   /ətrˈæktɪvnəs/   Listen
Attractiveness

noun
1.
The quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts.  Synonym: attraction.
2.
Sexual allure.






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"Attractiveness" Quotes from Famous Books



... were under the special protection of, that they drew the very breath of their attractiveness from, the ceremonial Simpson, who can deny? When he flitted from walk to walk, from box to box, and welcomed everybody to the 'Royal property,' right royally did things go on! Who would then ...
— Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign • John Ashton

... growing blacker. Waves of darkness clouded my mind and I found it hard to think straight. My esper sense faded first and as it faded I let it run once more over Martha's attractiveness and found my darkening mind wishing that she were the girl I'd believed her to be instead of the female louse she was. It ...
— Stop Look and Dig • George O. Smith

... about a mile long and, although many European shops line it, the street still retains its Oriental attractiveness. Branching off from it are many narrow streets crowded with shops on both sides. Here may be seen the real life of Old Cairo, unhampered by any foreign innovations. The street is not more than twelve feet wide and above the first floor of the houses projecting latticed windows ...
— The Critic in the Orient • George Hamlin Fitch

... went on, he reviewed, mentally, the events leading up to his landing here. The sudden appearance on his teleview screen of the face and slim shoulders of a girl. Her attractiveness plainly distinguishable through her helmet; for a moment he forgot that he disliked women. The call for help, cut short ... but not before he had learned that apparently she was being held prisoner on Asteroid Moira. He knew he'd have to do what ...
— The Beast of Space • F.E. Hardart

... if anything," I replied, "had under-estimated the attractiveness of that house. All I blame the advertisement for is that it did not mention other things. It did not mention, for instance, that since Queen Elizabeth's time the neighbourhood had changed. It did not mention that the entrance was between a public- house ...
— They and I • Jerome K. Jerome


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