Meaning of FASCINATION
| Pronunciation: | | `fasu'neyshun
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- [n] the capacity to attract intense interest; "he held the children spellbound with magic tricks and other fascinations"
- [n] a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual
- [n] the state of being intensely interested (as by awe or terror)
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| | Synonyms: | | captivation, captivation, enchantment, enthrallment |
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| | See Also: | | attraction, attractiveness, enchantment, liking, spell, trance | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fas`ci*na"tion\, n. [L. fascinatio; cf. F.
fascination.]
1. The act of fascinating, bewhiching, or enchanting;
enchantment; witchcraft; the exercise of a powerful or
irresistible influence on the affections or passions;
unseen, inexplicable influence.
The Turks hang old rags . . . upon their fairest
horses, and other goodly creatures, to secure them
against fascination. --Waller.
2. The state or condition of being fascinated.
3. That which fascinates; a charm; a spell.
There is a certain bewitchery or fascination in
words. --South.
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| | Related Terms: | | admiration, affinity, agacerie, allure, allurement, amaze, amazement, animal magnetism, appeal, astonishment, astoundment, attraction, attractiveness, awe, awesomeness, bedevilment, beguilement, beguiling, beguilingness, bent, bewilderment, bewitchery, bewitchment, bias, blandishment, breathless wonder, bug, cajolery, captivation, charisma, charm, charmingness, come-hither, complex, compulsion, craze, crazy fancy, draw, dumbfoundment, enchantingness, enchantment, enthrallment, enthusiasm, enthusiasticalness, enticement, enticingness, entrancement, entrapment, extraordinariness, fancy, favor, fixation, fixed idea, flirtation, forbidden fruit, furor, furore, glamorousness, glamour, hang-up, hypercathexis, idee fixe, illusion, inclination, inducement, infatuation, influence, interest, inveiglement, invitation, irresistible impulse, leaning, magic, magnetism, mania, manic-depressive psychosis, marvel, marveling, marvelousness, maya, miraculousness, monomania, morbid drive, mutual affinity, mutual attraction, mysteriousness, mystery, numinousness, obsession, obsessive compulsion, partiality, passion, penchant, phenomenalness, possession, predilection, preference, preoccupation, prepossession, proclivity, prodigiousness, propensity, pull, puzzlement, rage, remarkableness, ruling passion, seducement, seduction, seductiveness, sense of mystery, sense of wonder, sex appeal, snaring, sorcery, stupefaction, stupendousness, surprise, sympathy, tantalization, temptation, tic, turn, winning ways, winsomeness, witchcraft, witchery, wonder, wonderfulness, wonderment, wondrousness, wooing |
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