characteristic vs attracter

attracter vs characteristic

characteristic and attracter both are nouns.

characteristic is an adjective but attracter is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
characteristic	Yes	Yes	No	No
attracter	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, attracter is a hyponym of characteristic; that is, attracter is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than characteristic:

characteristic: a prominent attribute or aspect of something
attracter: a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts

Other hyponyms of characteristic include sex character, sex characteristic, sexual characteristic, invariant, aspect, facet, attraction, attractive feature, attractor, magnet, badge, centerpiece, centrepiece, contour, excellence, excellency, external, distinctive feature, distinguishing characteristic, peculiarity, safety feature.

characteristic (noun)	attracter (noun)
a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something	a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts
any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions	(physics) a point in the ideal multidimensional phase space that is used to describe a system toward which the system tends to evolve regardless of the starting conditions of the system
a prominent attribute or aspect of something	an entertainer who attracts large audiences
the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2

characteristic (adjective)	attracter (adjective)
typical or distinctive

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