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# fascination

«fascination» in Mova's school dictionary: **a strong interest that holds your attention so you cannot…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (fascinations, plural)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Fascination is a strong interest that holds your attention so you cannot look away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fascination/#m1)

2) Fascination is the power to attract and charm someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fascination/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales a person's beauty or charm holds others, like a snake's gaze over a bird

### examples

- Helen still had all her beauty and fascination. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fascination/#x1)
- Circe began to use her fascinations on him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fascination/#x2)
- He felt the fascination of her eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fascination/#x3)
- The book has a fascination for children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fascination/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fascination» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fascination/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.