fascination

fascination

n.

1. profound interest in, attraction to, or enchantment with a person, object, activity, or phenomenon.

2. in psychoanalytic theory, an infant’s primitive attempt to master what is perceived (e.g., a light) by identifying with it. —fascinate vb.

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