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What force creates electronegativity?

Electric charge is used to describe the behavior of electrons which seek to counterbalance the positive charge of protons.

But I have read about other forces which also attract electrons to atoms, could someone explain the mechanism behind electronegativity? Or why an electron might seek to enter the orbit of an atom which was already electrically neutral?