limerence
/ˈlɪmərəns/
the intense, involuntary state of being infatuated with someone
limerence in a sentence
“He mistook the giddy rush of limerence for lasting love.”
Origin of limerence
Coined in the 1970s by psychologist Dorothy Tennov, an arbitrary formation
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