fascination

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A strong attraction or interest in something.

   She has always had a fascination with the stars and planets.

2. 2
   noun

   The power something has to attract intense interest.

   The old castle holds a strange fascination for visitors.

From Latin fascinare ("to bewitch"), possibly from Ancient Greek βασκαίνιεν (baskaínien, “to speak ill of; to curse”). Morphologically fascinate + -ion.

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