Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative form of limerence.
Examples
“What I want to know is why Lochhead spells it "limerance" instead of "limerence.”
“Recognize the difference between limerance and love.”
Three Relationship Articles from Psychology Today, With Commentary
“Love mostly starts out as limerance, but limerance doesn't always evolve into love.”
Three Relationship Articles from Psychology Today, With Commentary
“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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juv3nal's Words
ligature, hermeneutic, caduceus, prelapsarian, apophenia, pataphor, lipogram, epinephrine, ludic, samizdat, oulipo, oulipopo and 194 more...
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televisionarie's list
Way too pretentious.
limerance, scansion, legerity, tumescence, peripatetic, milieu, sangfroid, solipsistic, apanthropy
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slackagogo's Words
agelast, aggiornamento, zaftig, wowserism, vox barbara, verbigeration, tchotchke, tautology, sycophant, spoonerism, solipsism, sobriquet and 288 more...
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lavendargrrl's Words
surfeit, radiant, sussuration, sustenance, authenticity, aching, solitude, solicitous, limerance, compersion, philanthropy, mystery and 108 more...
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polymorph's Words
pornerastic, yeaux, enantiadromia, synchronicity, transubstantiation, sensimilla, slough, scaphism, symbiosis, prolix, orgiastic, cryptogamic and 245 more...
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summer words 2009
how many words can I make mine this summer?
largess, hoyden, catholic, fornicatress, quean, slattern, bildungsroman, sybaritic, descresent, nodus, frittle, callipygian and 529 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Vocalublary Awareness
Words I need to use more to increase my vocabulary.
incredulous, prolific, ubiquitous, egregious, aplomb, resilience, persevere, punctilious, perspicacious, inordinate, articulate, enunciate and 199 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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Words i had to look up
hermeneutics, flimflam, semi-parodic, motes, susurrations, phantasm, egregiously, monoglot, galluptious, exigency, agrimony, gibbous and 111 more...
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Australian
words not found in other
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scrabbleabdul, abdulled, abdulling, abi, abiu, ablactate, absinthial, absinthian, absoluter, acalypha, acanthodian, acaroids and 5128 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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vivek's list
flibbertigibbet, droll, reticence, prelude, erinaceous, brinkmanship, depone, inaniloquent, limerance, pronk, onomatopoeia, oxymoron and 385 more...
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Fire & Life
eloquent, sumptuous, opulent, ripple, beautiful, ballet, music, Europa, ethereal, precious, sunset, inhale and 17 more...
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EatingIsMurder's Words
exsanguinate, scurfy pubesence, portmanteau, quetzalcoatl, verisimilitude, insouciant, onus, perspicacious, sibilance, orgiastic, priapism, idiosyncratic and 8 more...
Tweets
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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