fascination

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[ UK /fˌæsɪnˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌfæsəˈneɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. the state of being intensely interested (as by awe or terror)
  2. the capacity to attract intense interest
    he held the children spellbound with magic tricks and other fascinations
  3. a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual
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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
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