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Attraction vs Heteroerotic - What's the difference?

attraction | heteroerotic |

As a noun attraction

is the tendency to attract.

As an adjective heteroerotic is

sexual desire of or attraction to a person of the opposite 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

    heteroerotic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • sexual desire of or attraction to a person of the opposite gender
  • * 2005, James L. Miller, Dante & the Unorthodox: the Aesthetics of Transgression , Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, page 216:
  • The heteroerotic topos of the lover's fascinated gaze, drawn irresistibly to the face and especially the eyes of his beloved, is not hard to discern behind the parodic cruising of the Thieves.

    Antonyms

    * homoerotic

    Derived terms

    * heteroeroticism

    References

    * 2007, Curt Boenheim, Introduction to Present Day Psychology , Read Books, page 59