magnetism

IPA: mˈægnʌtɪzʌm

Examples of "magnetism" in Sentences

Had he been a lexicographer he would have found the term magnetism far more inclusive.
Mrs. Carew has what you call magnetism -- a personality which I should imagine would be very appealing to a child.
Thus electrons should no longer be thought of as nebulous clouds and magnetism is no longer a mysterious invisible force.
The best definition I've heard for the word magnetism is this: the power to affect others with the delight someone takes in himself.
No man of his time could hold a candle to Mr. Blaine in what we call magnetism - that is, in manly charm, supported by facility and brain power.
No man of his time could hold a candle to Mr. Blaine in what we call magnetism -- that is, in manly charm, supported by facility and brain power.
Schelling's interest in magnetism and somnambulism, which are often seen as part of the prehistory of psychoanalysis, [17] marks an early concern on his part with unconscious phenomena that goes beyond the mere use of the word unconscious (bewusstlos) in The System
That is but _one_ phenomenon of magnetism, to which we have appropriated and confined the term magnetism; because of all the natural bodies at present known, iron, and one or two of its nearest relatives in the family of hard yet coherent metals, are the only ones, in which all the conditions are collected, under which alone the magnetic agency can appear in and during the act itself.