counterattraction
nounUK /ˌkaʊntəɹəˈtɹakʃən/
Etymology From counter- + attraction.
1
Something that vies for the attention of a person or thing in competition with something else; a rival for preference.
- 1956, January 31ˢᵗ: Alan Alexander Milne; quoted in:
- 1988: James B. Simpson, Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, № 4,393 (Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief — call it what you will — than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.
- Related terms
- counterattract, counterattracting, counterattractive