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Attraction vs Tinselly - What's the difference?

attraction | tinselly |

As a noun attraction

is the tendency to attract.

As an adjective tinselly is

resembling or adorned with tinsel.

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

    tinselly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling or adorned with tinsel.
  • * 2007 , Scott Smith, A Simple Plan
    • Christmas decorations clung to the light poles lining the street — green, red, and white tinselly creations: snowmen, Santas, reindeer, candy canes...
  • Gaudy, superficial; offering attraction without depth.
  • * 1978 , Edward Lewis Wallant, The Pawnbroker
    • She was a light-skinned girl of frail and tinselly beauty...
  • * 1984 , Louise T Reynolds, The New Renaissance
    • ...the insurance money his death would provide might help his sons to become the tinselly images of a perfect salesman he had so foolishly hoped to be...

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