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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