Sentence:  But the compensations are many: changing scenes, long days out of doors, freedom from the bondage of conventional life, and above all, the <WSD>fascination</WSD> of living among peoples of primitive simplicity and yet of a civilization so ancient that it makes all that is oldest in the West seem raw and crude and unfinished. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The state or condition of being fascinated.