infatuation Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration
  2. noun temporary love of an adolescent
    crush; puppy love; calf love.
  3. noun an object of extravagant short-lived passion

WordNet

In*fat`u*a"tion noun
Etymology
LL. infatuatio: cf. F. infatuation.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913