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Adoration vs Infatuation - What's the difference?

adoration | infatuation |

As nouns the difference between adoration and infatuation

is that adoration is an act of religious worship while infatuation is the act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates.

adoration

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (countable) An act of religious worship.
  • * a. 1779 ,
  • We incessantly look forward, and endeavour, by prayers, adoration , and sacrifice, to appease those unknown powers, whom we find, by experience, so able to afflict and oppress us.
  • (uncountable) Admiration or esteem.
  • * 1890,
  • ...if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly...she is worthy of all your adoration', worthy of the ' adoration of the world.
  • (uncountable) The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.
  • * 1887,
  • He adored Sorais quite as earnestly as Sir Henry adored Nyleptha, and his adoration had not altogether prospered.

    infatuation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates.
  • An unreasoning love or attraction.