Infatuation
[ɪn,fætʃʊ'eɪʃ(ə)n;-tjʊ-] or [ɪn,fætʃu'eʃən]
Definition
(noun.) an object of extravagant short-lived passion.
(noun.) a foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration.
Typist: Ora--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Folly, foolishness, hallucination, want of sound judgment.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Fatuity, hallucination, madness, self-deception
ANT:Clear-sightedness, sagacity, wisdom, sanity, soundness
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Examples
- He proved this to himself by all the weary arguments on that side he had read, and every one of them sunk him deeper in the infatuation. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Sir Leicester is devoted to you almost to infatuation. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In my infatuation, I said, Truth, you are a good mistress to your faithful servants! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- That I retired to bed in a most maudlin state of mind, and got up in a crisis of feeble infatuation. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- And yet, my friend, sensible and judicious as you are, but partaking of the general infatuation, you seemed to believe it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She--repulsing him with insult, and he imploring her with infatuation. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- His uncle further declared that I was both deformed and ugly, which rendered his infatuation the more absurd. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- But your arts and allurements may, in a moment of infatuation, have made him forget what he owes to himself and to all his family. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Is there nothing left, to which I can appeal against this terrible infatuation! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- He might not be able to overcome that infatuation, even knowing what we know. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But if Selden's infatuation seemed a fatal necessity, the effect that his name produced shook Gerty's steadfastness with a last pang. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Black Sambo, with the infatuation of his profession, determined on setting up a public-house. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It was ridiculous to be flying like an emotional coward from an infatuation his reason had conquered. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Forget your foolish gratitude-begotten infatuation, which your innocence has mistaken for love. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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