infatuation

• Because we often confuse love with infatuation, the heart can play tricks and lead us to make mistakes in that field. —  Extra
• Nobody blamed the credulity and avarice of the people, - the degrading lust of gain, which had swallowed up every nobler quality in the national character, or the infatuation which had made the multitude run their heads with such frantic eagerness into the net held out for them by scheming projectors. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
• I am truly sorry for your infatuation, and wished to have served you, but you will not be assisted by me Here Mr Trevannion paused, but I made no reply. —  The Privateersman
• So Naomi and Ruth talked it over together, for by this time his infatuation was the talk of the city, and sentimental, romantic old Naomi, who must have been a charming woman in her day, was interested in this love affair. —  Fair to Look Upon
• If her infatuation was ridiculous, it occurred to Abel that her courage, at least, was sublime. —  The Miller Of Old Church

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