Fascinate vs Mesmerize - What's the difference?
fascinate | mesmerize |
To evoke an intense interest or attraction in someone
To make someone hold motionless; to spellbind
To be irresistibly charming or attractive to
To exercise mesmerism on; to spellbind; to enthrall.
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As verbs the difference between fascinate and mesmerize
is that fascinate is to evoke an intense interest or attraction in someone while mesmerize is to exercise mesmerism on; to spellbind; to enthrall.fascinate
English
Verb
(fascinat)- The flickering TV fascinated the cat.
- We were fascinated by the potter's skill.
- Her gait fascinates all men.
mesmerize
English
Alternative forms
* mesmerise (UK)Verb
(mesmeriz)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized , like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}