PHYSICAL ATTRACTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does physical attraction mean? 

• PHYSICAL ATTRACTION (noun)
  The noun PHYSICAL ATTRACTION has 1 sense:

1. a desire for sexual intimacy

  Familiarity information: PHYSICAL ATTRACTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHYSICAL ATTRACTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A desire for sexual intimacy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

concupiscence; eros; physical attraction; sexual desire

Hypernyms ("physical attraction" is a kind of...):

desire (the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "physical attraction"):

erotic love; love; sexual love (a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction)

aphrodisia (a desire for heterosexual intimacy)

anaphrodisia (decline or absence of sexual desire)

passion (a feeling of strong sexual desire)

sensualism; sensuality; sensualness (desire for sensual pleasures)

amativeness; amorousness; eroticism; erotism; sexiness (the arousal of feelings of sexual desire)

fetish (a form of sexual desire in which gratification depends to an abnormal degree on some object or item of clothing or part of the body)

libido ((psychoanalysis) a Freudian term for sexual urge or desire)

lecherousness; lust; lustfulness (a strong sexual desire)

nymphomania (abnormally intense sexual desire in women)

satyriasis (abnormally intense sexual desire in men)

the hots (intense sexual desire)

 Context examples 

The property of remaining in close proximity, as that resulting from the physical attraction of molecules to a substance or the molecular attraction existing between the surfaces of contacting bodies.

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