as in crush
a strong but often short-lived liking for another person had a brief infatuation with the captain of the ski team

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Recent Examples on the Web But Senna’s infatuation with domestic artifice is also personal. Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2024 For some reason, over the past four months, my feelings for Kendra have grown into an infatuation. Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024 Snoop Dogg is opening up about his infatuation with handbags. Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 30 July 2024 To a Russian ear, Halberstadt’s stories sound conventional and even a bit clichéd: his descriptions of Soviet poverty, humiliating shortages, pervasive censorship, ubiquitous lies, and the late Soviet infatuation with Western pop culture are all familiar. Alex Halberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020 See all Example Sentences for infatuation 

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“Infatuation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infatuation. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.

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