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Infatuation   /ɪnfˌætʃuˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Infatuation

noun
1.
A foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration.
2.
Temporary love of an adolescent.  Synonyms: calf love, crush, puppy love.
3.
An object of extravagant short-lived passion.





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"Infatuation" Quotes from Famous Books



... countermarchings through the streets to relieve the guards, and armed men occupying the halls of justice and freedom, with sentinels at their doors. Quiet observers of this strange spectacle, like Andrew Eliot, wondered at the infatuation of the Ministry, and what the troops were sent to do; while the popular leaders and the body of the Patriots regarded their presence as insulting. The crown officials and Loyalist leaders, however, exulted in this show of force, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 • Various
... as Scudo says; but the glory was that of a shooting star. In eight short years after that brilliant season at Venice, Adelaide Montresor, better known as 'La Malanotte,' the idol of the European musical public, the short-lived infatuation and passion of the celebrated Rossini, was a hopeless ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various
... literature, composed of such rendering of personal impressions which that most enigmatical of all dramas has made upon men of various disposition. Every hypothesis finds its adherents among a small group, whilst those who feel differently smile at the infatuation of their antagonists. Nothing that could give true and final satisfaction has yet been reached in ...
— Shakspere And Montaigne • Jacob Feis
... oppression of that valuable class of the citizens who are employed in the cultivation of the soil. But public and private distress will keep pace with each other in gloomy concert; and unite in deploring the infatuation of those counsels which led to disunion. PUBLIUS. 1 If my memory be right they amount ...
— The Federalist Papers
... a spectator of a bioscope drama, standing in darkness while a scene was being pictured for him in remorseless detail behind the lighted window. That Olive's feeling for Larssen had grown beyond mere friendship was plain beyond question. She was infatuated with the man; and he was playing with her infatuation. ...
— Swirling Waters • Max Rittenberg


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