Crossword clues for infatuation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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.
Such is the infatuation of self-love.
--Blair.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, noun of action from infatuate, or else from French infatuation or directly from Late Latin infatuationem (nominative infatuatio), from past participle stem of infatuare.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of infatuate; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates. 2 An unreasoning love or attraction.
WordNet
n. foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration
temporary love of an adolescent [syn: puppy love, calf love, crush]
an object of extravagant short-lived passion
Wikipedia
Infatuation or being smitten is the state of being carried away by an unreasoned passion.
Infatuation is the state of being completely carried away by unreasoned passion or love.
Infatuation may also refer to:
- Infatuation (1995 film), a film starring Françoise Yip
- "Infatuation" (Christina Aguilera song), a song by Christina Aguilera from Stripped
- "Infatuation" (Rod Stewart song), from the album Camouflage
- "Infatuation", a song by Jamie Foxx from Peep This
- "Infatuation", a song by The Rapture from Echoes
- "Infatuation", a song by Maroon 5 from It Won't Be Soon Before Long
- "Infatuation", a song by Jonas Brothers from the Japanese release of A Little Bit Longer
- "Infatuation", a song by John Farnham from Uncovered
- redirect Stripped (Christina Aguilera album)
Category:2002 songs Category:Christina Aguilera songs Category:Songs written by Christina Aguilera Category:Songs written by Scott Storch
"Infatuation" is a 1984 hit song by Rod Stewart. It was written by Stewart, and features guitar playing by Jeff Beck, who makes a cameo in the video. When released as a single, it had two different B-Side's. The first B-Side was She Won't Dance With Me, which is off his 1980 album Foolish Behaviour while the second B-Side, Three Time Loser, is off his 1975 album Atlantic Crossing.
Infatuation is the second studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Kate Alexa, released on August 17, 2012 in Australia by Liberation Music. The album was released six years after Alexa's debut Broken & Beautiful (2006), and was preceded by four singles, "Infatuation", "X Rated", "I'm Falling" and "I Deny".
Usage examples of "infatuation".
In spite of my infatuation for her, I could not make up my mind to such a step, and I went on seeing her and courting her in the hope that she would alter her decision.
Lord, that the queen desires for you only two objects of infatuation: myself, who does not matter, and of course the queen herself.
Their infatuation encouraging me, I spoke like a learned physician, I dogmatized, I quoted authors whom I had never read.
When the matter had blown over, and Marceline had forgotten about her new infatuation, it would be time enough to have Denis on hand again.
Is it not a strange infatuation to rank the moments of affliction among the evil events of our lives, when these may prove the very means of bringing back our wandering feet to the path which leads to everlasting life?
And now there was another purpose in the evil mind of the Beduin who had conceived for the white girl an infatuation that was driving him to the verge of madness.
Skandranon watching Zhaneel from afar like a lovesick brancher in a juvenile infatuation.
I learned that lesson long ago the hard way, when I was an upscale defense attorney with an infatuation for the civil litigator down the hall.
And like a schoolgirl of seventeen instead of a spinster of seven-and-twenty, she continued to harbor a ridiculous infatuation for him.
At these words I rose and went to the window, where I stayed for more than a quarter of an hour reflecting on her infatuation.
Now all was mooning about lost lovers and new infatuations, prime interests to the subteen set.
Lesley Woolfe and the rest of them thought about him and his infatuation, a shout that had interested him less and less over the past few weeks.
My sister, Ruthie, was a carhop for two summers and set the record for falling in love, her two-month summer gig resulting in 4eacba infatuations and 3eaifd Real Things.
But the counsel of the baneful goddess Cypris was working out its accomplishment, who brought upon them soul destroying infatuation.
Higgs, and knew nothing about him except the too little that I told him, pressed his suit, and about a month after Higgs had gone, having recovered my passing infatuation for him, I took kindly to the Mayor and accepted him, without telling him what I ought to have told him--but the words stuck in my throat.