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Definition of Counterattraction
1. Noun. A rival attraction.
Definition of Counterattraction
1. Noun. Something that vies for the attention of a person or thing in competition with something else; a rival for preference. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Counterattraction
Literary usage of Counterattraction
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1890)
"... result in 1889 as. in 1887—8 had it not been for the powerful derivative
counterattraction offered by the Universal Exhibition and the centenary fetes. ..."
2. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1920)
"... the counterattraction- of the general election the interest of the people of
the city in their distinguished guest had not diminished. ..."
3. The Elements: An Investigation of the Forces which Determine the Position by William Leighton Jordan (1867)
"But, nevertheless, the intrinsic difference between the nature of a centrifugal
force of counterattraction proceeding from astral gravitation, and VOL. II. ..."
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