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fascination

[fas-uh-ney-shuhn]

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noun

the power or action of fascinating.

the state or an instance of being fascinated: They watched in fascination.

a fascinating quality; powerful attraction; charm: the fascination of foreign travel.

Cards. a form of solitaire.

Origin:
1595–1605; < Latin fascinātiōn- (stem of fascinātiō) a bewitching. See fascinate, -ion

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How can anyone be this narcissistic, you wonder in disbelief, in appalled fascination.

But there are certain anti-stimuli that overwhelm even my well-honed capacity for fascination.

It betrays the artist's fascination with the poetics and politics of parallel worlds.

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How can anyone be this narcissistic, you wonder in disbelief, in appalled fascination.

But there are certain anti-stimuli that overwhelm even my well-honed capacity for fascination.

It betrays the artist's fascination with the poetics and politics of parallel worlds.

The fish has been a source of fascination ever since.

New study may explain why marketers are able to exploit our sense of adventure and fascination with things.

But human fascination with animal hybrids, as hyperbolic as it is, has some basis in reality.

Perhaps this explains my fascination with capturing bees for this month's photos.

Man's fascination with the possibility of intelligent life existing elsewhere has been around since the first.

The fascination of craftsmanship on a miniature scale is universal, attracting the sophisticated and unsophisticated alike.

His own artistic career began with a childhood fascination with cartoons.

Yet for all the gloomy fascination that surrounds ageing, precious little research has been done into its causes.

Worldwide fascination with these giants fuels a thriving industry.

The experience gave him an enduring fascination with infectious diseases.

The youngster watched in fascination as faces slowly appeared on coated-metal plates submerged in developing trays.

China apparently does not share the same fascination.

Just within the last week, for instance, this fascination with magazine.

Calloway has had a fascination with engineering and all things mechanical.

Collections have become an object of fascination in a culture that once had few possessions.

Pirates have been figures of fascination and fear for centuries.

Hence vaccine designers' fascination with one of the oldest vaccines around.

My fascination with this special place grew with each push.

He has a fascination with mechanical gadgets, the colors amber and steel blue, and body parts embalmed in jars.

The line of its fascination is not so much its melodramatic plot.

The terror and horror that must have been felt by people on the ground is calmly replaced by our fascination and speculation.

But fascination with these magnificent creatures continues.

The chimps went about their business, showing no excited curiosity or reciprocal fascination.

Your fascination with papers that confirm your preconceived ideas about how nature functions seems to be without limit.

But when fame and fascination mix, so much the better.

He has had a lifelong fascination with science and a natural curiosity for understanding the way things work.

The reason for fascination with a world pressing in on us, as does ours today, is obvious.

Part of our fascination with serial-killer monsters is that we.

Perhaps the recent cultural fascination with catchy dates corresponds to our modern use of computerized notation.

The dramatic and engaging text chronicles our fascination with our nearest planetary neighbor.

The narration provides scientific insights that provoke genuine intellectual fascination.

Words cannot express my fascination and admiration of this man.

Link's own fascination with how well technology and literature can get along prompted her decision.

He feels obviously the fascination of the man as the world has felt it.

It's true that there is a starry-eyed fascination with potential.

Readers will not necessarily share his fascination with the minutiae of development.

Despite people's fascination with this deep-sea behemoth, the giant squid's life and habits have remained largely a mystery.

But the fascination with our demise isn't limited to deluded zealots.

Recently there's been a great deal of public fascination with large deep-sea squid.

Cameron's fascination with oceans stretches back more than two decades.

For a newly affluent man of advanced years it was an understandable fascination.

America's debt debacle provokes rubber-necking fascination but the euro crisis is still the bigger threat to financial stability.

Stourhead is a grand example of genteel fascination with the past.

But public fascination also provided a window for criticism, and ultrasound elicited substantial ethical deliberation.

Dhinojwala and his crew aren't the only ones with gecko-foot fascination.

The entire state has a fascination with reducing human behavior to numbers and mandating behavior based on those numbers.

And yet, based on your own fascination with his folksy ways and tissue-thin views on free markets, you endorsed him.

Complete with educational information about each animal, these sets enhance learning and fascination among young ones.

Perhaps our fascination with them is due to their geographic distribution.

How languages have emerged and changed through human history is a subject of ongoing fascination.

Sci-fi and public fascination with space is higher than ever before.

The insect's amazing lifestyle has been a source of fascination since ancient times.

Humans have long had a particular fascination with dolphins and whales.

Emmerich once again displays a fascination with the melodramatic and the superficial.

Their fascination and craving for big and bigger bombs never ceases.

I've got my parents and family to thank for my fascination with train travel.

It is the feature that causes the fascination for the counterfeit game.

Morgan has a long-standing fascination with science and science fiction:.

Most scientific disciplines aren't caught in the gravity well of public fascination.

It is key to the workings of our natural world and a source of endless fascination for arenophiles.

But you're dealing with two reporters who have a fascination with all things weapons-related.

She also started her fascination with human bones at a young age.

Their research stirred an ongoing scientific fascination with emergent properties and complexities.

The blooms became a matter of popular and scientific fascination.

With enough effort, that fear can be turned into fascination.

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World English Dictionary

fascinate (ˈfæsɪˌneɪt)

—vb
1.	to attract and delight by arousing interest or curiosity: his stories fascinated me for hours
2.	to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe
3.	archaic to put under a spell

[C16: from Latin fascināre, from fascinum a bewitching]

usage A person can be fascinated by or with another person or thing. It is correct to speak of someone's fascination with a person or thing; one can also say a person or thing has a fascination for someone

'fascinatedly

—*adv*

fasci'nation

—n

'fascinative

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

fascination

c.1600, from L. fascinationem, noun of action from fascinare (see fascinate).

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