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  • noun The state or quality of being tractive.

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tractive +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • There is an overlapping between the goods of the body and external goods in the matter of goods ascribable to heredity, such as personal at - tractiveness or beauty, but there is no confusion be - tween external goods and goods of the soul.

    FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE VINCENZO CIOFFARI 1968

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