Infatuation
noun
A strong but not lasting feeling of love or attraction for someone or something.
Her infatuation with the pop star lasted only a few weeks.
Often appears as...
- have an infatuation
- infatuation with someone
noun
The state of being absorbed, obsessed, or overly excited about something.
The child has an infatuation with dinosaurs
Often appears as...
- infatuation for something
- develop an infatuation
noun
A strong but not lasting feeling of love or attraction for someone or something.
Her infatuation with the pop star lasted only a few weeks.
Often appears as...
- have an infatuation
- infatuation with someone
noun
The state of being absorbed, obsessed, or overly excited about something.
The child has an infatuation with dinosaurs
Often appears as...
- infatuation for something
- develop an infatuation
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Pro Tip 1/3Temporary Feeling
Although intense, infatuation is short-lived and usually fades over time.
After a month, her infatuation with the sports car vanished.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Deep Love
Infatuation is about surface-level attraction, often without deeper understanding or commitment.
She mistook her infatuation for true love until they actually talked.
Pro Tip 3/3Often Youthful
Infatuation is commonly used to describe intense feelings experienced by young people.
The teenager's infatuation with the new student was apparent to everyone.
Pro Tip 1/3Temporary Feeling
Although intense, infatuation is short-lived and usually fades over time.
After a month, her infatuation with the sports car vanished.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Deep Love
Infatuation is about surface-level attraction, often without deeper understanding or commitment.
She mistook her infatuation for true love until they actually talked.
Pro Tip 3/3Often Youthful
Infatuation is commonly used to describe intense feelings experienced by young people.
The teenager's infatuation with the new student was apparent to everyone.
Pro Tip 1/3Temporary Feeling
Although intense, infatuation is short-lived and usually fades over time.
After a month, her infatuation with the sports car vanished.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Deep Love
Infatuation is about surface-level attraction, often without deeper understanding or commitment.
She mistook her infatuation for true love until they actually talked.
Pro Tip 3/3Often Youthful
Infatuation is commonly used to describe intense feelings experienced by young people.
The teenager's infatuation with the new student was apparent to everyone.
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here's the thing that you need to get comfortable with when you've given the tool to acquire information to students is that you have to be comfortable with this idea of allowing kids to fail as part of the learning process we deal right now in the educational landscape with an it just an infatuation with the
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Malcolm Gladwell: The...
they have become angrier and angrier and more and more motivated to kill us. I have not described to you a success story. I've described to you the opposite of a success story. And this is the problem with our infatuation with the things we make.
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How to learn? From...
here's the thing that you need to get comfortable with when you've given the tool to acquire information to students is that you have to be comfortable with this idea of allowing kids to fail as part of the learning process we deal right now in the educational landscape with an it just an infatuation with the
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Malcolm Gladwell: The...
they have become angrier and angrier and more and more motivated to kill us. I have not described to you a success story. I've described to you the opposite of a success story. And this is the problem with our infatuation with the things we make.
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Taylor Swift
American Singer
Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.
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Henry James
American Writer
Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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Lemmy
English Musician
I don't know if love exists, not the kind that keeps. I think love's an infatuation that turns into a habit, because you can't keep that passion going. You get used to people, and that's death for me - I like to be surprised.
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Donald Rumsfeld
American Politician
Don't divide the world into 'them' and 'us.' Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours.
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Stephanie Coontz
American Author
For a century, women have binged on romance novels that encouraged them to associate intimidation with infatuation; it's no wonder that this emotional hangover still lingers.
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Tamera Mowry
American Actress
A lot of the time when people get married in the infatuation, it will go down. That is inevitable. The infatuation stage will not last forever.
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Phil McGraw
American Psychologist
There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.
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Alexa Chung
English Journalist
I don't think love should make you feel uneasy. When you feel sick, I don't think that's love - that's infatuation.
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Jim Morrison
American Singer
Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
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Jabari Parker
American Basketball Player
I think people know about my love for cars - my infatuation for cars.
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Taylor Swift
American Singer
Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.
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Henry James
American Writer
Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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Lemmy
English Musician
I don't know if love exists, not the kind that keeps. I think love's an infatuation that turns into a habit, because you can't keep that passion going. You get used to people, and that's death for me - I like to be surprised.
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Donald Rumsfeld
American Politician
Don't divide the world into 'them' and 'us.' Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours.
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Stephanie Coontz
American Author
For a century, women have binged on romance novels that encouraged them to associate intimidation with infatuation; it's no wonder that this emotional hangover still lingers.
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Tamera Mowry
American Actress
A lot of the time when people get married in the infatuation, it will go down. That is inevitable. The infatuation stage will not last forever.
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Phil McGraw
American Psychologist
There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.
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Alexa Chung
English Journalist
I don't think love should make you feel uneasy. When you feel sick, I don't think that's love - that's infatuation.
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Jim Morrison
American Singer
Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
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Jabari Parker
American Basketball Player
I think people know about my love for cars - my infatuation for cars.
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