infatuation

English

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

infatuation (countable and uncountable, plural infatuations)

An immensely strong love or sexual attraction.
(obsolete) The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; madness
something which infatuates.

Related terms

Translations

The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates

Bulgarian: увлечение (bg) n (uvlečenie), влюбеност (bg) f (vljubenost)
Catalan: infatuació (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 迷戀 (zh), 迷恋 (zh) (míliàn)
Dutch: waanzinnige verliefdheid
Finnish: hullaantuminen (fi), ihastuminen (fi)
French: engouement (fr) m
German: Vernarrtheit f, besinnungslose Verliebtheit f, Betörung f, Verblendung (de) f
Greek: πάθος (el) n (páthos)
Italian: infatuazione f

Japanese: 夢中 (ja) (むちゅう, muchū), 心酔 (しんすい, shinsui), ほれ込み (ほれこみ, horekomi), のぼせ上がり (のぼせあがり, noboseagari)
Maori: koharatanga
Portuguese: enfatuamento (pt) f, enfatuação f
Russian: увлече́ние (ru) n (uvlečénije), влюблённость (ru) f (vljubljónnostʹ), страсть (ru) f (strastʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: залуђеност

Roman: zaluđenost (sh)
Spanish: pasión (es) f
Swedish: förälskelse (sv) c

An unreasoning love or attraction

Bulgarian: безразсъдна любов f (bezrazsǎdna ljubov)
Catalan: infatuació (ca) f
Dutch: geliefde (nl), vlam (nl),
Finnish: hullaantuminen (fi), ihastuminen (fi)
French: béguin (fr), amourette (fr)
German: Schwärmerei (de) f, Vernarrtheit f, Besessenheit (de) f, Versessenheit f
Korean: 열병 (ko) (yeolbyeong)

Maori: unuora, whakamaimoa, mate kanehe
Polish: zauroczenie (pl) n
Russian: (безрассудная (bezrassudnaja)) страсть (ru) f (strastʹ) (bezrassúdnaja) strast’, (страстная (strastnaja)) влюблённость (ru) f (vljubljónnostʹ) (strástnaja) vljubljónnost’, (слепое (slepoje)) увлече́ние (ru) f (uvlečénije) (slepóje) uvlečénije
Spanish: encaprichamiento (es) m
Swedish: förälskelse (sv) c

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