Noun

• S: (n) infatuation (a foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration)
• S: (n) puppy love, calf love, crush, infatuation (temporary love of an adolescent)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) infatuation (an object of extravagant short-lived passion)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) object (the focus of cognitions or feelings) "objects of thought"; "the object of my affection"
• S: (n) antipathy (the object of a feeling of intense aversion; something to be avoided) "cats were his greatest antipathy"
• S: (n) bugbear, hobgoblin (an object of dread or apprehension) "Germany was always a bugbear for France"; "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"--Ralph Waldo Emerson
• S: (n) execration (the object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated)
• S: (n) center, centre, center of attention, centre of attention (the object upon which interest and attention focuses) "his stories made him the center of the party"
• S: (n) hallucination (an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode) "he refused to believe that the angel was a hallucination"
• S: (n) infatuation (an object of extravagant short-lived passion)
• S: (n) love, passion (any object of warm affection or devotion) "the theater was her first love"; "he has a passion for cock fighting"
• derivationally related form
• W: (v) infatuate [Related to: infatuation] (arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way) "His new car has infatuated him"; "love has infatuated her"