Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. infatuation
Examples
“What I want to know is why Lochhead spells it "limerance" instead of "limerence.”
“Recognize the difference between limerance and love.”
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“Love mostly starts out as limerance, but limerance doesn't always evolve into love.”
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“The feisty Scottish poet Liz Lochhead promptly used it in The Grimm Sisters 1981: "From limerance and venery/ She flinched as at fire," which would seem to give the word a certain literary cachet.”
“I have suffered from limerance many times, and avoiding the guy seems to help.”
“Now if they'll just honor my request to have Luann walk in on him and Toni with her wearing a strap-on and her brother making a face like Karl Rove on a Tilt-a-Whirl, I'll achieve limerance.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘limerance’.
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televisionarie's list
Way too pretentious.
limerance, scansion, legerity, tumescence, peripatetic, milieu, sangfroid, solipsistic, apanthropy
mollusque The title of Tennov's book is "Love and Limerence", not "Love and Limerance". Jan 19, 2009
avivamagnolia limerance – the initial exhilarating rush of falling in love; the state of "being in love".
Limerance, unlike 'infatuation', does not carry the connotation of emotional immaturity.
In contrast to "loving someone", limerance implies obsessive thinking about the limerent object and acute longing for reciprocation.
Coined by Dorothy Tennov in her book Love and Limerance (1979; recently reprinted). It will be interesting to see if this word enters the vernacular. Jan 19, 2009
bilby *lowers the Cone of Silence* Aug 18, 2008
plethora I think I've found my word for the next Identify the Wordie! Aug 17, 2008
shevek A word this obscure should not have a variant spelling. *steps of soapbox* Aug 17, 2008
mollusque Variant spelling of limerence. Nov 7, 2007