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Instigation vs Attraction - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between instigation and attraction

is that instigation is the act of instigating, or the state of being instigated; incitement; especially to evil or wickedness while attraction is the tendency to attract.

instigation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of instigating, or the state of being instigated; incitement; especially to evil or wickedness.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.

    Related terms

    * instigate * instigator

    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