fascination

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the capacity to attract intense interest

   I held the children spellbound with magic tricks and other fascinations.

2. 2
   noun

   The act of bewitching, or enchanting

   Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence.

3. 3
   noun

   The state or condition of being fascinated.

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

4. 4
   noun

   Something which fascinates.

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

5. 5
   noun

   a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual

6. 6
   noun

   the state of being intensely interested (as by awe or terror)

Etymology

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