Obsess vs Infatuate - What's the difference?
obsess | infatuate |
To be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (label) To dominate the thoughts of someone.
To think or talk obsessively about.
To inspire with unreasoning love or attachment.
(obsolete) Infatuated; full of unreasoning love or attachment.
As verbs the difference between obsess and infatuate
is that obsess is to be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion while infatuate is to inspire with unreasoning love or attachment.As an adjective infatuate is
(obsolete) infatuated; full of unreasoning love or attachment.obsess
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(es)Magician’s brain, passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}
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(infatuat)Adjective
(en adjective)- (Bishop Hall)
