Meaning of infatuative | Babel Free

Definitions

Characteristic of infatuation.

not-comparable, rare

Examples

“Since infatuation doesn’t seem in the main to be aimed at building identity—although some of that does go on—we demand⟳ that one let⟳ go of the infatuation once it becomes clear that it is mainly infatuative sexual fantasizing and not character self construction that is going on. “Oh, that’s just an infatuation; he’ll get⟳ over it.””

“Infatuative behavior unfairly reifies a female image, placing an unfair burden not only on the given movie star but, especially, on the young girl who strives to appropriate the face⟳ in the spectacle and the man who lusts after the unreal image.”

“Pousha obstruct the enemy’s path and spell-wind forces with their infatuative power.”

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