Fascinated vs Attract - What's the difference?
fascinated | attract |
(fascinate)
To evoke an intense interest or attraction in someone
To make someone hold motionless; to spellbind
To be irresistibly charming or attractive to
To pull toward without touching.
* Derham
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To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure.
* (John Milton)
As verbs the difference between fascinated and attract
is that fascinated is (fascinate) while attract is to pull toward without touching.fascinated
English
Verb
(head)fascinate
English
Verb
(fascinat)- The flickering TV fascinated the cat.
- We were fascinated by the potter's skill.
- Her gait fascinates all men.
attract
English
Verb
(en verb)- All bodies and all parts of bodies mutually attract themselves and one another.
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- Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze.
