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What is the origin of infatuated?
When we speak of someone being infatuated it very often is in relationship to that person having seemingly taken leave of his or her senses, especially in a romantic context (“he was so infatuated that he could not remember what day of the week it was”). This is fitting, as the word shares an origin with the word fatuous, which means complacently or inanely foolish. Both words come from the Latin fatuus (“foolish”), although fatuous is not often used in the romantic contexts in which we find infatuate. When used with a preposition infatuated is typically followed by with.
Examples of infatuate in a Sentence
Amber McBride, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
The nation was infatuated with the market, which was showering wealth on investors big and small.
—Evan Hughes, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
Roberts is a professor at a college who has to navigate a serious situation when a student infatuated with her, Maggie (Ayo Edebiri), accuses her colleague and good friend Hank (Andrew Garfield) of assault.
—Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
Her usually-racing mind is at ease and infatuated with language and quirky memories.
—Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
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“Infatuate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/infatuate. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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