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.
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
infatuate English
Verb
(infatuat)
To inspire with unreasoning love or attachment.
Related terms
* infatuation
* fatuity
* fatuously
* fatuousness
* infatuate
Adjective
( en adjective)
(obsolete) Infatuated; full of unreasoning love or attachment.
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mesmerize English
Alternative forms
* mesmerise (UK)
Verb
( mesmeriz)
To exercise mesmerism on; to spellbind; to enthrall.
* , chapter=4
, title= 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.}}
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Synonyms
* (exercise mesmerism on) spellbind, hypnotize, enthrall
See also
* hypnotize
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