D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Infatuation

/ĭnˌ-făchˌ-o͞o-āsh'-ən/ · In·fat·u·a·tion · IPA /ˌɪnfˌætʃuːˈeɪʃən/
01 n. The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates.
  1. 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.