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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Magnetism \Mag"net*ism\, n. [Cf. F. magn['e]tisme.] The property, quality, or state, of being magnetic; the manifestation of the force in nature which is seen in a magnet. At one time it was believed to be separate from the electrical force, but it ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The property of being magnetic 2 The science which treats of magnetic phenomena. 3 Power of attraction; power to excite the feelings and to gain the affections.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Modern Latin magnetismus (see magnet + -ism ). Figurative sense of "personal charm" is from 1650s; in the hypnotic sense it is from Mesmer (see mesmerism ). Meaning "science of magnetics" is recorded from early 19c.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Magnetism is a class of physical phenomena that are mediated by magnetic fields . Electric currents and the magnetic moments of elementary particles give rise to a magnetic field, which acts on other currents and magnetic moments. Every material is influenced ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN animal ▪ Oh dear, and he'd thought it was his own animal magnetism . ▪ Have we said enough to show that the use of animal magnetism is morally dangerous? EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A force greater than magnetism gripped ...

Usage examples of magnetism.

Thus similarity of temperament results in barrenness while dissimilarity makes the vital magnetism all the more powerful.

The assertive blatancy of his clothes was just part of the malevolent animal magnetism that had affected Bond from the beginning.

Childhood incidents and the compelling magnetism of Bret Cavanaugh make Jessica Butler a heroine you will not soon forget.

English and American operators fail to see any distinction between magnetism and hypnotism, and suppose that the effect of passes, etc.

Initiation was a school, in which were taught the truths of primitive revelation, the existence and attributes of one God, the immortality of the Soul, rewards and punishments in a future life, the phenomena of Nature, the arts, the sciences, morality, legislation, philosophy, and philanthropy, and what we now style psychology and metaphysics, with animal magnetism, and the other occult sciences.

Luckily, that volume has already been written, following in great detail the path from the Egyptians to modern times, including the strange effects of Meissner fields, superconductivity, and magnetism.

For, by regarding the old and new continents as two distinct masses of land whose bases are separated by 6,000 miles of water, we recognize two great magnets, dependent, however, for their magnetism, on the rotation of the terral vortex.

It seems evident, then, that all the phenomena of animal magnetism have been from an early period known to mankind under the various forms of divinatory ecstasy, demonopathy or witchmania, theomania, or fanatical religious excitation, spontaneous catalepsy, and somnambulism.

His steady, riveting gaze carried a warmth through that thin thread of magnetism that connected them, setting her blood asimmer and her heart racing.

By some alchemy of nature, at which I could only guess, it was on the track by which the North exercised its spell, a cableway for the magnetism of that cruel frozen Uttermost, which man might penetrate but could never subdue or understand.

Villefort, without seeking any further explanation, and attracted towards him by the irresistible magnetism which draws us towards those who have loved the people for whom we mourn, extended his hand towards the young man.

It combined all the best features of osteopathy, chiropracty, magnetism, homeopathy, and other systems of drugless medicine.

I have been showing my audience to-day that magnetism and matter created the earths, that light and heat created the heavens.

Nevertheless, he was a man of forceful ability and personal magnetism, possessed standing in Lapan as a soldier and leader and was popular and influential among his own people.