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Attraction vs Alloerotic - What's the difference?

attraction | alloerotic |

As a noun attraction

is the tendency to attract.

As an adjective alloerotic is

sexual desire of or attraction to another person of any gender.

attraction

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The tendency to attract.
  • The feeling of being attracted.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction . A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}
  • An event or location that has a tendency to attract visitors.
  • (chess) The sacrifice of pieces in order to expose the enemy king.

    • Synonyms

    * charm * pull

    Antonyms

    * repulsion

    alloerotic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • sexual desire of or attraction to another person of any gender
  • * 1999, Bruce Fink, A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique , Harvard University Press, page 66:
    • It is this loss of gratification—whether autoerotic or alloerotic (involving another person such as the mother)—that Lacan refers to as "castration."

    Synonyms

    * heteroerotic

    Antonyms

    * analloerotic

    Derived terms

    * alloeroticism

    References

    * 1990, Ray Blanchard, Betty W. Steiner, Clinical management of gender identity disorders in children and adults , American Psychiatric Press, page 63