A feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual.

synonyms: captivation, enthrallment, fascination.

Roget 992: sorcery; occult art, occult sciences; magic, the black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy^†; demonology, demonomy^†, demonship^†; diablerie [Fr.], bedevilment; witchcraft, witchery; glamor; fetishism, fetichism, feticism^†; ghost dance, hoodoo; obi, obiism^†; voodoo, voodooism; Shamanism (Esquimaux), vampirism; conjuration; bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment, mysticism, second sight, mesmerism, animal magnetism; od force, odylic force^†; electrobiology^†, clairvoyance; spiritualism, spirit rapping, table turning.    divination etc. (prediction) 511; sortilege^†, ordeal, sortes Virgilianae^†; hocus-pocus etc. (deception) 545.    ... show more

Roget 897: love; fondness etc. adj.; liking; inclination etc. (desire) 865; regard, dilection^†, admiration, fancy.    affection, sympathy, fellow-feeling; tenderness etc. adj.; heart, brotherly love; benevolence etc. 906; attachment.    yearning, eros, tender passion, amour; gyneolatry^†; gallantry, passion, flame, devotion, fervor, enthusiasm, transport of love, rapture, enchantment, infatuation, adoration, idolatry.    Cupid, Venus; myrtle; true lover's knot; love token, love suit, love affair, love tale, love story; the, old story, plighted love; courtship etc. 902; amourette^†; free love.    maternal love, storge [Gr.], parental love; young love, puppy love.    attractiveness; popularity; favorite etc. 899.    lover, suitor, follower, admirer, adorer, wooer, amoret^†, beau, sweetheart, inamorato [It], swain, young man, flame, love, truelove; leman^†, Lothario, gallant, paramour, amoroso^†, cavaliere servente [It], captive, cicisbeo^†; caro sposo [It].    inamorata, ladylove, idol, darling, duck, Dulcinea, angel, goddess, cara sposa [It].    betrothed, affianced, fiancee.    flirt, coquette; amorette^†; pair of turtledoves; abode of love, agapemone^†.    ... show more

Roget 827: pleasure, gratification, enjoyment, fruition; oblectation, delectation, delection^†; relish, zest; gusto etc. (physical pleasure) 377; satisfaction etc. (content) 831; complacency.    well-being; good etc. 618; snugness, comfort, ease; cushion etc. 215; sans souci [Fr.], without worry, mind at ease.    joy, gladness, delight, glee, cheer, sunshine; cheerfulness etc. 836.    treat, refreshment; amusement etc. 840; luxury etc. 377.    mens sana in corpore sano [Lat.] [Juvenal], a sound mind in a sound body.    happiness, felicity, bliss; beatitude, beautification; enchantment, transport, rapture, ravishment, ecstasy; summum bonum [Lat.]; paradise, elysium etc. (heaven) 981; third heaven^†, seventh heaven, cloud nine; unalloyed happiness &c.; hedonics^†, hedonism.    honeymoon; palmy days, halcyon days; golden age, golden time; Dixie, Dixie's land; Saturnia regna [Lat.], Arcadia^†, Shangri-La, happy valley, Agapemone^†.    ... show more

Roget 829: pleasurableness, pleasantness, agreeableness etc. adj.; pleasure giving, jucundity^†, delectability; amusement etc. 840.    attraction etc. (motive) 615; attractiveness, attractability^†; invitingness etc. adj.^†; harm, fascination, enchantment, witchery, seduction, winning ways, amenity, amiability; winsomeness.    loveliness etc. (beauty) 845; sunny side, bright side; sweets etc. (sugar) 396; goodness etc. 648; manna in the wilderness, land flowing with milk and honey; bittersweet; fair weather.    treat; regale etc. (physical pleasure) 377; dainty; titbit^†, tidbit; nuts, sauce piquante [Fr.].    ... show more

Dutch: fascinatie
Polish: fascynacja, oczarowanie, olśnienie, urzeczenie, zauroczenie

A psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation.

synonyms: spell, trance.

Dutch: trance, toverspreuk, ban, betovering

A magical spell.

synonym: bewitchment.