infatuation
in fa chooh ay shuhn
- n a foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration
- n temporary love of an adolescent
- n an object of extravagant short-lived passion
- Cobain told his few high school friends that he had "suicide genes," and there's a dangerous echo of that infatuation with doom in Winehouse's fetish for ill-fated soul singers.
- But for an artist, an infatuation with movies can be a tricky thing.
- Romantic infatuation is different from both raw lust and the enduring commitment that keeps lovers together long after their besottedness has faded.