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Attraction vs Connection - What's the difference?

attraction | connection |

As nouns the difference between attraction and connection

is that attraction is the tendency to attract while connection is (uncountable) the act of connecting.

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

    connection

    English

    Alternative forms

    * connexion , (abbreviation)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of connecting.
  • The point at which two or more things are connected.
    • the connection between overeating and obesity
    My headache has no connection with me going out last night.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2004 , date=April 15 , author= , title=Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer , work=The Scotsman citation , page= , passage=A spokesman for Lothian and Borders Police said: "We can confirm that a 15-year-old boy has been arrested and charged in connection with the murder of Jodi Jones. A 45-year-old has also been arrested in connection with allegations of attempting to pervert the course of justice. A report on this has been sent to the procurator fiscal." }}
  • A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
    • As we were the only people in the room to laugh at the joke, I felt a connection between us.
  • An established communications or transportation link.
    • computers linked by a network connection
    I was talking to him, but there was lightning and we lost the connection .
  • (transport) A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service
    • The bus was late so he missed his connection at Penn Station and had to wait six hours for the next train.
  • A kinship relationship between people.