Word Finder - fascination

definition

The act of bewitching, or enchanting

synonyms

• enchantment
• witchcraft

definition

The state or condition of being fascinated.

example

To my fascination, the skies turned all kinds of colours.

definition

Something which fascinates.

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Life after death had always been a great fascination to him.

I couldn't figure out his fascination with her at the time.

Fascination and fear trickled through her.

He felt the fascination and delight of frenzy.

Greece, ancient Greece, exercised a mysterious fascination over me.

Duty replaced his fascination with the mortal world.

The fascination which hangs around the latter has well-nigh obscured the former.

Her features were as handsome as Mary's, but she had little fascination, and in spite of her many suitors no man lost his head over Elizabeth as men did over Mary.

Deidre watched the movie in both fascination and fear.

Though of a fickle and treacherous nature, he had all the personal fascination of his family, and is extolled by his contemporaries as a mirror of chivalry.

Quinn's fascination increased with his wine consumption.

He would hold his duty over his fascination with the immortal world.

The past of Rome had always a peculiar fascination for Roman writers.

He was fascinated especially by Neoplatonism, and this fascination never left him.

The tang of the untainted, fresh and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought, and the shells and pebbles and the seaweed with tiny living creatures attached to it never lost their fascination for me.

She watched in fascination, not understanding what it was until a floor several below hers exploded into flying stone and fire.

His bizarre and mystical style has a strange fascination for the reader; but there is nothing Roman or Italian about it.

His winning manners, his polished address, his knowledge of men, his personal fascination, and his intimate knowledge of Greek, all marked him out as the fittest representative of Rome in the East.

I've always held a deep fascination with the natural world " out there " .

Other symbols - such as the Crown Jewels and coronation regalia - are unique objects which exert a powerful fascination.

His present research is on immigrant youth and their fascination with contemporary, Afro-American ghetto culture.

Why does one Victorian murderer still exert such world-wide fascination in an age hardly short of its own violent crimes?

Perhaps the greatest legacy of the Civil War is its ongoing debate and continuing fascination worldwide.

His commanding stature, the symmetry of his form, the dark and melancholy beauty of his countenance, rather rendered piquant than impaired by an obliquity of vision, produced an imposing impression even before his deep and powerful voice had given utterance to its melodious thunders; and harsh and superficial half-truths enunciated with surpassing ease and grace of gesture, and not only with an air of absolute conviction but with the authority of a prophetic messenger, in tones whose magical fascination was inspired by an earnestness beyond all imitation of art, acquired a plausibility and importance which, at least while the orator spoke, made his audience entirely forgetful of their preconceived objections against them.

Sometimes, he thought there was none of the human left at all, just an incarnated goddess whose fascination with her new world extended to him.

But above all, what gives the sentences of Marcus Aurelius their enduring value and fascination, and renders them superior to the utterances of Epictetus and Seneca, is that they are the gospel of his life.

If he had had all his own originality without the itch of appearing original, he would have made his fascination irresistible.

This change of policy on his part, frequently ascribed to the fascination of the king's conversation, arose in reality from the nature of his own convictions.

Some medical lectures he did attend, but as long as Frau Neuber's company kept together the theatre had an irresistible fascination for him.

In short, modernism is characterized, apart from its international character, by its fascination with evolving consciousness.

But they also showed the artists ' fascination with the land around them.

Thus the elements of which Faust is composed were even more difficult to blend than were those of Wilhelm Meister; but the very want of uniformity is one source of the perennial fascination of the tragedy, and has made it in a peculiar degree the national poem of the German people, the mirror which reflects the national life and poetry from the outburst of Sturm and Drang to the well-weighed and tranquil classicism of Goethe's old age.

Not realizing the tape formed flexible hinges, he watched with rapt fascination as the form collapsed into a small, neat bundle.

Mankiw has had an abiding intellectual fascination with A W Phillips '1958 postulation of a trade-off between wage inflation and unemployment.

Her fascination with the surface of the earth led her to study physical geography.

Common household items are endless sources of fascination to a toddler.

Depending upon the age of your child, certain noises, textures, and colors are endless sources of fascination.

So, when a toddler shows his fascination with the computer, take note, and get ready to satisfy his need to learn.

The fascination with individuals or groups is not a new phenomenon.

Kids who read comic books online are actually combining a love of reading with a fascination for technology.

Ripley's Believe It or Not! is one title that appeals to kids' natural fascination with the grotesque, outlandish, and unbelievable, although it's little more than a collection of vignettes on various human achievements.

Banderas describes it as a "secret fascination," and it's clearly evident in the already remarkable history of his fragrance collection.

The fascination with moon photos is especially pronounced during the summer months when amateur photographers are vacationing in the great outdoors.

This fascination with old-school photography has Polaroid enthusiasts wondering if the company will revitalize its once thriving line of instant film cameras.

There seems to be an innate fascination with trains and if your little boy has such an appreciation, then you'll be happy to discover all of the available patterns that feature trains as a theme.

If you know a kid or an adult who has a fascination with bugs, a ladybug birthday cake may be the perfect design for his or her special day.

Among those topics is the undeniable fascination people have with the larger-than-life select few individual who seem to dominate the headlines internationally.

Whether it's fascination with their accents, their work or their roles, the following are some of the most well-known celebrities not only in Great Britain, but around the world.

Mr. Blackwell, aka Richard Blackwell, may have increased the public's fascination in seeing badly dressed celebrities, but since his death in 2008, the public hasn't lost interest in the topic.

If your little girl has a fascination with dolls, a Barbie doll house may be the next big item on her wish list.

The moon has long held a fascination for the human race.