infatuation

English

infatuation (countable and uncountable, plural infatuations)

An immensely strong love or sexual attraction.
- 1838, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Duty and Inclination, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, page 141:
  As to the former, he is under a singular species of infatuation, to render himself thus subservient to the plans of Melliphant. Happily, however, we have effected our escape from them, and are on the road to our peaceful dwelling.
(obsolete) The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; madness.
Something which infatuates.

The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates

Bulgarian: увлечение (bg) n (uvlečenie), влюбеност (bg) f (vljubenost)
Catalan: infatuació (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 迷戀 (mai⁴ lyun²)
Mandarin: 迷戀／迷恋 (zh) (míliàn)
Dutch: waanzinnige verliefdheid
Finnish: hullaantuminen (fi), ihastuminen (fi)
French: engouement (fr) m
Galician: paixón (gl) f
German: Vernarrtheit f, besinnungslose Verliebtheit f, Betörung f, Verblendung (de) f
Greek: πάθος (el) n (páthos)
Hungarian: belehabarodás
Italian: infatuazione f
Japanese: 夢中 (ja) (むちゅう, muchū), 心酔 (ja) (しんすい, shinsui), ほれ込み (ほれこみ, horekomi), のぼせ上がり (のぼせあがり, noboseagari)
Macedonian: за́нес m (zánes), вљу́беност f (vljúbenost)
Maori: koharatanga
Portuguese: enfatuamento (pt) f, enfatuação f
Russian: увлече́ние (ru) n (uvlečénije), влюблённость (ru) f (vljubljónnostʹ), страсть (ru) f (strastʹ)
Sanskrit: मोहन (sa) n (mohana)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: залуђеност
Roman: zaluđenost (sh)
Spanish: pasión (es) f
Swedish: förälskelse (sv) c

An unreasoning love or attraction

Bulgarian: безразсъдна любов f (bezrazsǎdna ljubov)
Catalan: infatuació (ca) f
Dutch: geliefde (nl), vlam (nl),
Finnish: hullaantuminen (fi), ihastuminen (fi)
French: béguin (fr), amourette (fr)
German: Schwärmerei (de) f, Vernarrtheit f, Besessenheit (de) f, Versessenheit f
Korean: 열병 (ko) (yeolbyeong)
Macedonian: непро́мислен (neprómislen) страст f (strast), стра́сна (strásna) вљу́беност f (vljúbenost)
Maori: unuora, whakamaimoa, mate kanehe
Plautdietsch: Veblindunk f
Polish: zauroczenie (pl) n
Russian: (безрассудная (bezrassudnaja)) страсть (ru) f (strastʹ) (bezrassúdnaja) strast’, (страстная (strastnaja)) влюблённость (ru) f (vljubljónnostʹ) (strástnaja) vljubljónnost’, (слепое (slepoje)) увлече́ние (ru) f (uvlečénije) (slepóje) uvlečénije
Sanskrit: अचित्ति (sa) f (acitti)
Spanish: encaprichamiento (es) m
Swedish: förälskelse (sv) c

infatuation f (plural infatuations)