infatuation

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  • Rhymes: -eɪʃən
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Noun

infatuation (countable and uncountable, plural infatuations)

  1. An immensely strong love or sexual attraction.
    • 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XI, in Duty and Inclination: , volume III, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 141:
      As to the former, he is under a singular species of infatuation, to render himself thus subservient to the plans of Melliphant. Happily, however, we have effected our escape from them, and are on the road to our peaceful dwelling.
  2. (obsolete) The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; madness.
  3. Something which infatuates.

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Noun

infatuation f (plural infatuations)

  1. self-satisfaction

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