In Einstein gravity, gravitational potential goes as 1/r d−3 in d non-compactified spacetime dimensions, which assumes the familiar 1/r form in four dimensions. On the other hand, it goes as 1/r α , with α = (d −2m −1)/m, in pure Lovelock gravity involving only one mth order term of the Lovelock polynomial in the gravitational action. The latter offers a novel possibility of having 1/r potential for the noncompactified dimension spectrum given by d = 3m+1. Thus it turns out that in the two prototype gravitational settings of isolated objects, like black holes and the universe as a whole -cosmological models, the Einstein gravity in four and mth order pure Lovelock gravity in 3m + 1 dimensions behave in a similar fashion as far as gravitational interactions are considered. However propagation of gravitational waves (or the number of degrees of freedom) does indeed serve as a discriminator because it has two polarizations only in four dimensions.