Infatuate vs Mesmerize - What's the difference?
infatuate | mesmerize |
To inspire with unreasoning love or attachment.
(obsolete) Infatuated; full of unreasoning love or attachment.
To exercise mesmerism on; to spellbind; to enthrall.
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As verbs the difference between infatuate and mesmerize
is that infatuate is to inspire with unreasoning love or attachment while mesmerize is to exercise mesmerism on; to spellbind; to enthrall.As an adjective infatuate
is (obsolete) infatuated; full of unreasoning love or attachment.infatuate
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Verb
(infatuat)Adjective
(en adjective)- (Bishop Hall)
mesmerize
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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.}}