infatuation

n.

1. A foolish, unreasoning, or extravagant passion or attraction. See synonyms at love.
2. An object of extravagant, short-lived passion.

noun

An extravagant, short-lived romantic attachment: Informal crush. See excite/bore/interest, sex/asexual.

Quotes:

"Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?" - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

"Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me." - John Donne

"Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us." - George Eliot

"I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being." - Edward Gibbon

"There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years." - Edward Hoagland

"I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year." - Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Infatuation

Dansk (Danish)
n. - forblindelse, forgabelse, blindt forelsket

Nederlands (Dutch)
verliefdheid, bevlieging

Français (French)
n. - obsession, (fig) toquade

Deutsch (German)
n. - Vernarrtheit

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ξεμυάλισμα, ξετρέλαμα

Italiano (Italian)
infatuazione

Português (Portuguese)
n. - paixão (f)

Русский (Russian)
страстная влюбленность

Español (Spanish)
n. - enamoramiento, encaprichamiento, chifladura

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - dårskap, förblindelse, förälskelse, passion

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
迷惑, 醉心, 迷恋

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 迷惑, 醉心, 迷戀

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 열중함, 심취, 열중하게 하는 것

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 夢中にさせること, のぼせあがり, 心酔させるもの, 夢中, 惑溺

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) افتتان‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮אהבה עיוורת, דיבוק של אהבה‬

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