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UK
/fˌæsɪnˈeɪʃən/
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[ US /ˌfæsəˈneɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌfæsəˈneɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the state of being intensely interested (as by awe or terror)
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the capacity to attract intense interest
he held the children spellbound with magic tricks and other fascinations - a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual
How To Use fascination In A Sentence
- Among our number, there must be some who can bring home to the viewers the value and fascination of history as an art and science.
- I had a strange fascination with the MGM toons when I was young, especially Droopy.
- She recounts in detail her nervousness around him, her supposedly dangerous fascination with his charm.
- Was it a deviant thirst to find a lifelong fascination with such things? Times, Sunday Times
- Washington dreamed his way along the street, his fancy flitting from grain to hogs, from hogs to banks, from banks to eyewater, from eye-water to Tennessee Land, and lingering but a feverish moment upon each of these fascinations. The Gilded Age, Part 1.
- Yet conservation of this heritage is a century behind terrestrial archaeology, and as public fascination with it increases, so do the threats.
- Bunbury was staring in awful fascination at Windrush, who opened his mouth to wreck the entire con - hook, line and sinker. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
- It challenges the seemingly benign interest we have in criminology and forces us to question our morbid fascination with terrible deeds. Times, Sunday Times
- As an object of fascination and repulsion to the two men who represent the center of authority in their respective narratives, Carmen spells a threatening other, a dark figure that resists assimilation and endangers masculine power.
- One particular fascination to Europeans who flocked to watch her shows was her large, steatopygous buttocks. ANC Daily News Briefing