fascination
US/fæsɪˈneɪʃən/
fascination noun: the act of bewitching, or enchanting.
Noun
fascination (countable and uncountable, plural fascinations)
- The act of bewitching, or enchanting
- Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence.1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy)...
- Synonyms:
- enchantment, witchcraft, bewitching, bewitchment, spellcasting, enchanting, ensorcellment, incantation, witchery, witching
- The state or condition of being fascinated.
- To my fascination, the skies turned all kinds of colours.
- Sliding down the shaft he lay still, the spear jutting above him its full length, like a horrible stalk growing out of his back.
The girl stared down at him in morbid fascination, until Khemsa took her arm and led her through the gate.1934, Robert Ervin Howard, The People of the Black Circle
- Synonyms:
- romance
- Something which fascinates.
- Life after death had always been a great fascination to him.
- Though more thoughtful than Madame de Mercœur, yet it asked far more knowledge of society—that wilderness of small intricacies—for her to penetrate into the motives of those who seemed so suddenly struck with her fascination; but she was too clear-headed to be deceived, and set it all down under...1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 244
fascination meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
fascination in Tamil
- மோகம்
fascination in Urdu
- دلچسپی, محویت, سحر
fascination in Bengali
- fascination
- মুগ্ধতা mugdhota
fascination in Malayalam
- ആകർഷണം, മോഹം, ആഭിചാരം
More languagesFewer languages
- fascination in Kannada
- ಸೆಳೆತ, ಮೋಡಿ
- fascination in Punjabi
- ਮੋਹ moh
- fascination in Nepali
- मोहितता
Examples of fascination in a sentence
- We watched the derailment and ensuing train wreck with a mixture of fascination and horror.
- It's about feeing a sense of awe, fascination, and sometimes a little bit of respectful fear.
- We watched in dread fascination as he skipped lightly down the steps.
Synonyms of fascination
- enchantment
- witchcraft
- bewitching
- bewitchment
- spellcasting
- enchanting
- ensorcellment
- incantation
- witchery
- witching
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Forms of fascination
| plural | fascinations |
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Origin of fascination
From Latin fascinare ("to bewitch"), possibly from Ancient Greek βασκαίνιεν (baskaínien, “to speak ill of; to curse”). Morphologically fascinate + -ion.
Words formed from fascination
Words that rhyme with fascination
- station
- collation
- accommodation
- presentation
- derivation
- information
- modulation
- translation
- application
- fixation
- generation
- orientation
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- citation
- combination
- communication
- conjugation
- constellation
- determination
- elevation
- operation
- relation
- reservation
- alternation
- condensation
- conversation
- deviation
- excavation
- foliation
- formation
- foundation
- incarnation
- interpretation
- representation
- retardation
- speculation
- termination
- abbreviation
- adaptation
- articulation
- bifurcation
- concentration
- congregation
- declination
- degradation
- expectation
- extenuation
- gradation
- observation
- population
- preparation
- reconciliation
- rotation
- separation
- situation
- vexation
- vindication
- accumulation
- administration
- aggregation
- appropriation
Questions about fascination
- What does fascination mean?
- Fascination means the act of bewitching, or enchanting.
- What is fascination in Tamil?
- Fascination in Tamil is மோகம். See Fascination meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is fascination?
- Fascination is a noun.
- How do you pronounce fascination?
- Fascination is pronounced /fæsɪˈneɪʃən/ (US).
- What is the plural of fascination?
- The plural of fascination is fascinations.
Words near fascination in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fascination (page history and authors); fascination (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fascination (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); মুগ্ধতা (Bengali) (page history and authors); fascination (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fascination (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਮੋਹ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); fascination (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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