Admiration vs. Attraction — What's the Difference?

Admiration is a social emotion felt by observing people of competence, talent, or skill exceeding standards. Admiration facilitates social learning in groups.

The act or capability of attracting.

Respect and warm approval

The quality of attracting; charm.

A feeling of strong approval or delight with regard to someone or something

A feature or characteristic that attracts.

The state of being viewed with such approval or delight

A person, place, thing, or event that is intended to attract

The object of such approval and delight

A force exerted between bodies that tends to draw or hold them together, such as gravitational force or the electric or magnetic force between bodies of opposite polarity.

(Archaic) The action of wondering; marveling.

The tendency to attract.

A positive emotion including wonder and approbation; the regarding of another as being wonderful

The feeling of being attracted.

(obsolete) Wondering or questioning (without any particular positive or negative attitude to the subject).

(countable) An event, location, or business that has a tendency to draw interest from visitors, and in many cases, local residents.

(obsolete) Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise.

(chess) The sacrifice of pieces in order to expose the enemy king.

Wonder; astonishment.

(linguistics) An error in language production that incorrectly extends a feature from one word in a sentence to another, e.g. when a verb agrees with a noun other than its subject.

Wonder mingled with approbation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue.

An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.

Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise; a prodigy.

The act or property of attracting; the effect of the power or operation of attraction.

A feeling of delighted approval and liking

The power or act of alluring, drawing to, inviting, or engaging; an attractive quality; as, the attraction of beauty or eloquence.

The feeling aroused by something strange and surprising

That which attracts; an attractive object or feature.

A favorable judgment;

The force by which one object attracts another

An entertainment that is offered to the public

The quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts;

A characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts;

An entertainer who attracts large audiences;