infatuation
infatuation is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- all
- away
- believing
- bigotry
- blind
- catch
- cheese
- childish
- conclusion
- confident
- confiding
- credo
- credulity
- credulous
- credulousness
- cullibility
- deceive
- deception
- delusion
- down
- dupe
- easily
- father
- follow
- for
- gold
- gospel
- grasp
- green
- gross
- gullible
- gulp
- hyperorthodoxy
- idea
- implicitly
- impose
- infatuated
- jump
- made
- magnifico
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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