Capable of being attracted or drawn toward something; able to receive or be affected by attraction.
Formed from 'attract' plus the suffix '-able' (from Latin '-abilis'), which creates adjectives meaning 'capable of being' or 'worthy of being.' This suffix became one of English's most productive adjective-forming tools.
In physics and chemistry, 'attractable' became a technical term—scientists needed to specify which particles or materials were 'attractable' to magnets or other forces. It's a perfect example of how academic fields breathe new life into old word-formation patterns.
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