ATTRACTIVENESS
Dictionary entry overview: What does attractiveness mean?
• ATTRACTIVENESS (noun)
The noun ATTRACTIVENESS has 2 senses:
1. the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts
2. a beauty that appeals to the senses
Familiarity information: ATTRACTIVENESS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ATTRACTIVENESS (noun)
Meaning:
The quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
attractiveness; attraction
Context example:
her personality held a strange attraction for him
Hypernyms ("attractiveness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "attractiveness"):
come-on; enticement; lure (qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward)
fascination (the capacity to attract intense interest)
drawing power (the capacity for attracting people (customers or supporters))
binding (the capacity to attract and hold something)
allure; allurement; temptingness (the power to entice or attract through personal charm)
affinity (a natural attraction or feeling of kinship)
show-stopper; showstopper (something that is strikingly attractive or has great popular appeal)
Meaning:
A beauty that appeals to the senses
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("attractiveness" is a kind of...):
beauty (the qualities that give pleasure to the senses)
Attribute:
attractive (pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm)
unattractive (lacking beauty or charm)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "attractiveness"):
adorability; adorableness (extreme attractiveness)
animal magnetism; beguilement; bewitchery (magnetic personal charm)
charisma; personal appeal; personal magnetism (a personal attractiveness or interestingness that enables you to influence others)
desirability; desirableness; oomph; sex appeal (attractiveness to the opposite sex)
appeal; appealingness; charm (attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates)
spiff (attractiveness in appearance or dress or manner)
Antonym:
unattractiveness (an ugliness of appearance that is not appealing to viewers)
