In*fat`u*a"tion (?), n. [LL. infatuatio: cf. F. infatuation.]
The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates.
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.
Such is the infatuation of self-love.
Blair.
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