infatuation

infatuation
    n 1: a foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or
         admiration
    2: temporary love of an adolescent [syn: {puppy love}, {calf
       love}, {crush}, {infatuation}]
    3: an object of extravagant short-lived passion
    

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.
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         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.
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         Such is the infatuation of self-love.    --Blair.
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67 Moby Thesaurus words for "infatuation":
      affection, ardor, blind faith, bug, calf love, case, craze,
      crazy fancy, credulity, credulousness, crush, devotion,
      disposition to believe, dotage, ease of belief, enthusiasm,
      fanaticism, fascination, fondness, frenzy, furor, furore, fury,
      gross credulity, gust, gusto, likes, liking, love, mania,
      manic-depressive psychosis, mash, obsession, overambitiousness,
      overanxiety, overanxiousness, overcredulity, overcredulousness,
      overeagerness, overenthusiasm, overopenness to conviction,
      overtrustfulness, overzealousness, pash, passing fancy, passion,
      puppy love, rage, rash conviction, relish, stultification, taste,
      trustfulness, uncritical acceptance, uncriticalness,
      unquestioning belief, unripe acceptation, unskepticalness,
      unsuspectingness, unsuspiciousness, weakness, will to believe,
      willingness to believe, wishful belief, wishful thinking,
      zealotism, zealotry