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English Dictionary: infatuation by the DICT Development Group
2 results for infatuation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
infatuation
n
  1. a foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration
  2. temporary love of an adolescent
    Synonym(s): puppy love, calf love, crush, infatuation
  3. an object of extravagant short-lived passion
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Infatuation \In*fat`u*a"tion\, n. [LL. infatuatio: cf. F.
      infatuation.]
      The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly;
      that which infatuates.
  
               The infatuations of the sensual and frivolous part of
               mankind are amazing; but the infatuations of the
               learned and sophistical are incomparably more so. --I.
                                                                              Taylor.
  
               Such is the infatuation of self-love.      --Blair.
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