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Fascination

Fascination Meaning & Definition
Fascination Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Fascination?

[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)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Fascination: captivation | captivation | enchantment | enthrallment

Related Terms | Find terms related to Fascination: 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

See Also | attraction | attractiveness | enchantment | liking | spell | trance

Fascination In Webster's Dictionary

\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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