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 of infatuation For both Alyssa and Giselle, their relationship with beauty has come a long way since their initial infatuation with makeup as kids. Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 21 July 2025 Meanwhile, Richardson was appalled to observe Hemingway’s evident infatuation. Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2025 Expanding and moving the Club World Cup was unnecessary from a sporting point of view, existing mostly to fulfil Infantino’s personal infatuation with ‘growing the game’, and to make money. Nick Miller, New York Times, 13 June 2025 The infatuations of late elementary school solidified into something different, something more intense. Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 21 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for infatuation
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crush
Noun
  • Jamie Lee Curtis knows Stephen Colbert has a crush on her husband Christopher Guest.
    Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 30 July 2025
  • Vernes will play Carson, a Junior Olympian and popular student at New Sunnydale Academy who is the object of Nova’s (Armstrong) crush and starts noticing her after a life-changing event.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 30 July 2025

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“Infatuation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infatuation. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.

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