What is the meaning of mesmerizing?

verb

• Attract strongly, as if with a magnet.
  • usage: "She magnetized the audience with her tricks"
  • synonyms: magnetize, mesmerize, mesmerise, magnetise, bewitch, spellbind
• Induce hypnosis in.
  • synonyms: hypnotize, hypnotise, mesmerize, mesmerise

adjective

• Attracting and holding interest as if by a spell.
  • usage: "read the bedtime story in a hypnotic voice"; "she had a warm mesmeric charm"; "the sheer force of his presence was mesmerizing"; "a spellbinding description of life in ancient Rome"
  • synonyms: hypnotic, mesmeric, spellbinding