FASCINATION Synonyms

• the state of being intensely interested (as by awe or terror)

• a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual

• the power to entice or attract through personal charm

• dispose or incline or entice to

• attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates

• a verbal formula believed to have magical force

• something believed to bring good luck

• (physics) one of the six flavors of quark, the third most massive of all quarks

• attract; cause to be enamored

• control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft

• protect through supernatural powers or charms

• induce into action by using one's charm

• a foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration

• temporary love of an adolescent

• an object of extravagant short-lived passion

• a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends

• a clandestine love affair

• cause to be interested or curious

• form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner

• an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will

• an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone

• the art of sorcery

• a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual