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English
Pronunciation
Noun
infatuation (countable and uncountable, plural infatuations)
- 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.
- (obsolete) The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; madness.
- Something which infatuates.
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The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates
- Bulgarian: увлечение (bg) n (uvlečenie), влюбеност (bg) f (vljubenost)
- Catalan: infatuació (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 迷戀／迷恋 (mai4 lyun2)
- Mandarin: 迷戀／迷恋 (zh) (míliàn)
- Dutch: waanzinnige verliefdheid
- Finnish: hullaantuminen (fi), ihastuminen (fi)
- French: engouement (fr) m
- Galician: paixón (gl) f
- German: Vernarrtheit f, besinnungslose Verliebtheit f, Betörung f, Verblendung (de) f
- Greek: πάθος (el) n (páthos)
- Hungarian: belehabarodás
- Italian: infatuazione f
- Japanese: 夢中 (ja) (むちゅう, muchū), 心酔 (ja) (しんすい, shinsui), ほれ込み (ほれこみ, horekomi), のぼせ上がり (のぼせあがり, noboseagari)
- Macedonian: за́нес m (zánes), вљу́беност f (vljúbenost)
- Maori: koharatanga
- Portuguese: enfatuamento (pt) f, enfatuação f, paixão (pt)
- Russian: увлече́ние (ru) n (uvlečénije), влюблённость (ru) f (vljubljónnostʹ), страсть (ru) f (strastʹ)
- Sanskrit: मोहन (sa) n (mohana)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: залуђеност
- Roman: zaluđenost (sh)
- Spanish: pasión (es) f
- Swedish: förälskelse (sv) c
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An unreasoning love or attraction
- Bulgarian: безразсъдна любов f (bezrazsǎdna ljubov)
- Catalan: infatuació (ca) f
- Dutch: geliefde (nl), vlam (nl),
- Finnish: hullaantuminen (fi), ihastuminen (fi)
- French: béguin (fr), amourette (fr)
- German: Schwärmerei (de) f, Vernarrtheit f, Besessenheit (de) f, Versessenheit f
- Hindi: मोह (hi) (moh), आसक्ति (hi) (āsakti), मुग्धता (hi) (mugdhatā), सम्मोह (hi) (sammoh), विमोह (hi) (vimoh)
- Korean: 열병 (ko) (yeolbyeong)
- Macedonian: непро́мислен (neprómislen) страст f (strast), стра́сна (strásna) вљу́беност f (vljúbenost)
- Maori: unuora, whakamaimoa, mate kanehe
- Plautdietsch: Veblindunk f
- Polish: zauroczenie (pl) n
- Portuguese: paixão (pt)
- Russian: (безрассудная (bezrassudnaja)) страсть (ru) f (strastʹ) (bezrassúdnaja) strast’, (страстная (strastnaja)) влюблённость (ru) f (vljubljónnostʹ) (strástnaja) vljubljónnost’, (слепое (slepoje)) увлече́ние (ru) f (uvlečénije) (slepóje) uvlečénije
- Sanskrit: अचित्ति (sa) f (acitti)
- Spanish: encaprichamiento (es) m
- Swedish: förälskelse (sv) c
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French
Pronunciation
Noun
infatuation f (plural infatuations)
- self-satisfaction
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