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Fascination

noun

The state of being intensely interested (as by awe or terror). Synonym: captivation.

A feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual. Synonyms: captivation, enchantment, enthrallment.

The capacity to attract intense interest.

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"Fascination" Quotes from Famous Books

... significance that the Word of God bids us not set our heart upon riches when they increase. [Ps. lxii. 10.] It is often observed, I fear, that a man's readiness to give diminishes in proportion to his power for giving. There is a subtle fascination for many minds, and among them for minds generous at first, in an access of possessions; the thirst for more sets in, however imperceptibly, and perhaps the Christian, perhaps the Pastor, has become—before he knows it—covetous; caring a good deal for money. Let ...

— To My Younger Brethren - Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work • Handley C. G. Moule

... fascination her beauty had! I remember it with a shudder. Her face haunted me all night; I ...

— Coralie • Charlotte M. Braeme

... leave of a subject which has always exercised a peculiar fascination over me, and I can truly say that those old theatrical days were amongst the ...

— Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century • Montague Massey

... assume a deeper sternness, and he found it more and more difficult to withdraw his own. Suddenly, a thought darted through his mind, which made him shiver all over, and spring from his seat. The idea of fascination caused the start. He had more than once beheld the black snake extended on the ground, charming, with his glittering eyes the anguished bird which, with fainter and fainter screams, striving to delay a fate it could not escape, kept flying round and round in constantly diminishing ...

— The Knight of the Golden Melice - A Historical Romance • John Turvill Adams

... leaves, to vanish like ghosts. But they came back again, to push and crawl up nearer to that blazing wonder. Some of the back ones were skipping about but the front ones edged up in a sort of wild-eyed fascination. Closer and closer they got, then the first one was so near that reaching out to smell the lantern he burnt his nose, and at his alarm thump, all disappeared in the woods. But they soon returned to disport again in that amazing brightness; ...

— Wild Animals at Home • Ernest Thompson Seton

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