Attraction vs Appreciation - What's the difference?
attraction | appreciation |
The tendency to attract.
The feeling of being attracted.
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(chess) The sacrifice of pieces in order to expose the enemy king.
A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.
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Accurate perception; true estimation; as, an appreciation of the difficulties before us; an appreciation of colors.
A rise in value;—opposed to depreciation.
As nouns the difference between attraction and appreciation
is that attraction is the tendency to attract while appreciation is appreciation.attraction
English
Noun
(en-noun)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.}}
Synonyms
* charm * pullAntonyms
* repulsionappreciation
English
Noun
Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian , 16 September 2014:
- The English, until relatively recently, seem to have imagined “English” and “British” to be interchangeable, as if Britain was just a bigger England. Our dualism gave us a better appreciation of the nation-state we lived in, though if Britain was a “nation” as well as a “state”, where did that leave Scotland?
- His foreboding showed his appreciation of Henry's character. —J. R. Green.