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lovebombing

lovebombing is the alternative spelling of love bombing.

lovebombing is the present participle and gerund of lovebomb.

Meaning of love bombing

Noun

love bombing (uncountable)

  1. An attempt to influence a person by lavish demonstrations of attention and affection.
    • But in cases of love bombing, attention flows in a single direction: One person tries to become the other’s whole world.2022 January 10, Gina Cherelus, “What Is ‘Love Bombing’?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2022

Questions about lovebombing

What is lovebombing the alternative spelling of?
Lovebombing is the alternative spelling of love bombing.

Words near lovebombing in the dictionary

  1. lovebirds
  2. lovebite
  3. lovebites
  4. lovebomb
  5. lovebombed
  6. lovebombing
  7. lovebombs
  8. lovebot
  9. lovebots
  10. lovebud
  11. lovebuds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lovebombing (page history and authors); love bombing (page history and authors). 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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