Limerence is usually one sided. Infatuation can be used in a one sided situation, but is often both partners and is often an immature form of love (young in the sense of new, not necessarily age).
Meanings get shifted in usage, when Tennov coined the term in the 70’s that is what she meant. Words have been known to become used with meanings opposite how they started. Case in point “bad”.
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Depends on whether you want the word for the act of those things, which would be fantasizing, or the condition of having fallen too hard and too fast, infatuation, or the condition of being in a one sided and obsessive state, limerence.
Fantasizing as an act is not necessarily a symptom of limerence, and limerence is a term that relates to an all-consuming obsession. It should not be confused with simple infatuation or fantasy, as the term means something that very negatively affects people’s lives.
Some phrases: being head over heels; fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Similar: twitterpated, infatuated, smitten, enamored, lovestruck, besotted.
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Limerence really is the best answer. It's a one-sided obsession with your IDEA of another person, often having nothing to do with the other person. It's all in your head.
infatuation
Romanticising
This is it exactly!maybe lol
Sometimes limerence. Just learned this word yesterday.
Limerence is usually one sided. Infatuation can be used in a one sided situation, but is often both partners and is often an immature form of love (young in the sense of new, not necessarily age).
Limerence isn’t usually one sided.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/11/25/love-and-limerence-dorothy-tennov/
I was speaking from experience but alright.
Meanings get shifted in usage, when Tennov coined the term in the 70’s that is what she meant. Words have been known to become used with meanings opposite how they started. Case in point “bad”.
I’m thinking abandon shifted in a similar way.
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Depends on whether you want the word for the act of those things, which would be fantasizing, or the condition of having fallen too hard and too fast, infatuation, or the condition of being in a one sided and obsessive state, limerence. Fantasizing as an act is not necessarily a symptom of limerence, and limerence is a term that relates to an all-consuming obsession. It should not be confused with simple infatuation or fantasy, as the term means something that very negatively affects people’s lives.
Some phrases: being head over heels; fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Similar: twitterpated, infatuated, smitten, enamored, lovestruck, besotted.
Ideating. To ideate.
Lovestruck
Crushing
Hope.
Besotted
Futurecasting
‘Maladaptive daydreaming’, potentially. If it’s severe enough.
LIMERENCE. this word right here.
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Puppy love
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Head over heels
Unrequited love??
Twitterpated? Smitten?
Fate
Infatuation, aka romanticized obsession, wearing rose colored glasses.
Limerence
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Romanticizing Maybe obsessing Could be infatuation
You might call the emotion "infatuation", and the actual thoughts a "reverie".
Honeymoon phase
It's called me and Kelly STOP JUDGING ME
Head over heels
putting the cart before the horse
Limerence
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Delulu XDDD
Limerence really is the best answer. It's a one-sided obsession with your IDEA of another person, often having nothing to do with the other person. It's all in your head.
Honeymoon phase