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limerence (LI-mer-uhns) - n., an involuntary romantic infatuation with another person, especially combined with an overwhelming, obsessive need to have one's feelings reciprocated.
Sometimes given the shorthand definition of the initial exhilarating rush of falling in love. Note that it is usually defined as a romantic rather than sexual infatuation, so closer to a crush than the hots for. Coined and defined in 1979 by psychologist Dorothy Tennov in her book Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love (note that she distinguishes it from love itself) from, apparently, an arbitrary stem.
---L.
Sometimes given the shorthand definition of the initial exhilarating rush of falling in love. Note that it is usually defined as a romantic rather than sexual infatuation, so closer to a crush than the hots for. Coined and defined in 1979 by psychologist Dorothy Tennov in her book Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love (note that she distinguishes it from love itself) from, apparently, an arbitrary stem.
---L.
