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Vigour vs Attraction - What's the difference?

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Vigour is a related term of attraction.


As nouns the difference between vigour and attraction

is that vigour is active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy while attraction is the tendency to attract.

vigour

English

Alternative forms

* vigor (US) * vygour (obsolete)

Noun

  • Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
  • * (rfdate) :
  • The vigour of this arm was never vain.
  • (biology) Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action.
  • A plant grows with vigour.
  • Strength; efficacy; potency.
  • * 1667 , :
  • But in the fruithful earth His beams, unactive else, their vigour find.

    Usage notes

    Vigour and its derivatives commonly imply active strength, or the power of action and exertion, in distinction from passive strength, or strength to endure.

    Derived terms

    * envigorate * vigorous * hybrid vigor/hybrid vigour

    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