| Main Entry: | attraction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to draw attention; something that draws attention |
Synonyms: |
allure, allurement, appeal, attractiveness, bait, captivation, charm, chemistry, come-on, courting, draw, drawing power, enchantment, endearment, enthrallment, enticement, fascination, gravitation, inclination, inducement, interest, invitation, it, lure, magnetism, pull, seduction, solicitation, temptation, tendency |
Antonyms: |
repulsion, revulsion |
| Main Entry: | charm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enchantment, allure |
Synonyms: |
agreeableness, allurement, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, beauty, bewitchery, charisma, chemistry, conjuration, delightfulness, desirability, fascination, glamour, grace, it, lure, magic, magnetism, pizzazz*, something*, sorcery, spell, star quality, witchery |
Antonyms: |
repulsion |
| Main Entry: | organization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | arrangement, arranging |
Synonyms: |
alignment, assembling, assembly, chemistry, composition, configuration, conformation, constitution, construction, coordination, design, disposal, format, formation, forming, formulation, framework, grouping, harmony, institution, make-up, making, management, method, methodology, organism, organizing, pattern, plan, planning, regulation, running, situation, standard, standardization, structure, structuring, symmetry, system, unity, whole |
Antonyms: |
disorganization |
| Main Entry: | natural science |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical science |
Synonyms: |
biology, chemistry, life sciences, physics, pure science, science of matter |
| Notes: | exact sciences are physics, chemistry, astronomy etc.; pure science is regarded as essentially theoretical (in contrast to applied science, which is practical), social sciences include anthropology and sociology, physical sciences are geology, meteorology, etc.; natural sciences include botany, zoology, as well as chemistry and physics |
| Main Entry: | disquietude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | upset |
Synonyms: |
agitation, anxiety, chemistry, disquiet, dyspathy, dysphoria, excitement, ferment, restlessness, uneasiness, unrest |
Antonyms: |
calm |
| Main Entry: | organization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
arranged, cut and dried, embattled, in battle array, methodical, orderly, platted, pragmatic, raisonné, regular, rubric, systematic
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| Concept: | [Motion towards, actively] Attraction. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
attraction, attractiveness; attractivity; drawing to, pulling towards, adduction, magnetism, gravity, attraction of gravitation., loadstone, loadstar; magnet, siderite.
-verbs
attract; draw towards, pull towards, drag towards; adduce.
-adjectives
attracting; attrahent, attractive, adducent, adductive.
-phrases
ubi mel ibi apes [Plautus].
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Antonyms: |
repulse (Motion from)] |
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| Concept: | Organization. |
| Category: | 1. Vitality; vitality in general |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
organized world, organized nature; living nature, animated nature; living beings; organic remains, fossils., protoplasm, cytoplasm, protein; albumen; structure; organization, organism., [Science of living beings] biology; natural history, organic chemistry, anatomy, physiology; zoology; botany; naturalist., archegenesis (production); antherozoid, bioplasm, biotaxy, chromosome, dysmeromorph; ecology, oecology; erythroblast, gametangium, gamete, germinal matter, invagination; isogamy, oogamy; karyaster; macrogamete, microgamete; metabolism, anabolism, catabolism; metaplasm, ontogeny, ovary, ovum, oxidation, phylogeny, polymorphism, protozoa, spermary, spermatozoon, trophoplasm, vacuole, vertebration, zoogloea, zygote., Darwinism, neo-Darwinism, Lamarkism, neo-Lamarkism, Weismannism., morphology, taxonomy.
-adjectives
organic, organized; karyoplasmic, unsegmentic, vacuolar, zoogloeic, zoogloeoid.
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Antonyms: |
inorganization |
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