Noun

(en-noun)

The tendency to attract.

The feeling of being attracted.

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, 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.