'Infatuation' definitions:
Definition of 'infatuation'
(from WordNet)
noun
A foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration
noun
noun
An object of extravagant short-lived passion
Definition of 'Infatuation'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Such is the infatuation of self-love. --Blair. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'infatuation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affection,
- ardor,
- blind faith,
- bug,
- calf love,
- case,
- craze,
- crazy fancy,
- credulity,
- credulousness,
- crush,
- devotion,
- disposition to believe,
- dotage,
- ease of belief,
- enthusiasm,
- fanaticism,
- fascination,
- fondness,
- frenzy,
- furor,
- furore,
- fury,
- gross credulity,
- gust,
- gusto,
- likes,
- liking,
- love,
- mania,
- manic-depressive psychosis,
- mash,
- obsession,
- overambitiousness,
- overanxiety,
- overanxiousness,
- overcredulity,
- overcredulousness,
- overeagerness,
- overenthusiasm,
- overopenness to conviction,
- overtrustfulness,
- overzealousness,
- pash,
- passing fancy,
- passion,
- puppy love,
- rage,
- rash conviction,
- relish,
- stultification,
- taste,
- trustfulness,
- uncritical acceptance,
- uncriticalness,
- unquestioning belief,
- unripe acceptation,
- unskepticalness,
- unsuspectingness,
- unsuspiciousness,
- weakness,
- will to believe,
- willingness to believe,
- wishful belief,
- wishful thinking,
- zealotism,
- zealotry