instalove

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Etymology

From insta- +‎ love.

Noun

instalove (uncountable)

  1. (informal, neologism) Quick or instantaneous affection.
    Synonym: love at first sight
    • 2007 March 23, John Blesso, “Raw Oysters and Steak Tartare”, in Sharehouse Confidential: Sex, Drugs and the Single Life Inside an Epicurean Beach House: a memoir, New York: Silk City Press, →ISBN, page 205:
      These women didn’t have time to fall in love. As soon as they met a guy who was Good Enough, they pushed a little button somewhere and were imbued with InstaLove.
    • 2018, Piper Rayne, Birth of a Baby Daddy, unnumbered page:
      We desperately wanted their relationship to develop naturally and not be a case of instalove.
    • 2020, Kathryn Andrews, Blue Horizons, unnumbered page:
      I've never given much creed to the idea of instalove or soulmates, but damn if I didn't just feel something instinctual about her in the deepest part of me.
    • 2023, Tara Conrad, Real Life Romance: Duke and Percy, unnumbered page:
      Realizing the tuxedo kitten was an orphan like me, I scooped her up and brought her inside. It was a story of instalove.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:instalove.

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