How to Use limerence in a Sentence

limerence

noun

• There is good reason to frame limerence in terms of addiction.
  — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
• So, chocolate, orgasms, limerence, and heroin may all depend on the same little bundles of cells to evoke their fundamental sensation of pleasure.
  — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
• In friendships, platonic limerence is an intense infatuation with someone in a non-romantic way.
  — Meehika Barua, Time, 17 Mar. 2026
• The progression of limerence can be understood as a shift from desiring another person to becoming addicted to them.
  — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
• The feeling, somewhere between limerence and infatuation, hit me like a shoebox precariously shelved too high.
  — Madeline Hirsch, InStyle, 16 June 2026
• This is known as limerence, a romantic infatuation characterized by extreme emotional highs and lows.
  — Brittney Melton, NPR, 23 Sep. 2025
• How to stop limerence Of course, recognizing that an obsessive attachment is unhealthy usually isn’t enough to make strong feelings disappear.
  — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 6 Feb. 2026
• The arousal, reward, and bonding systems that produce the ecstatic connection of limerence are also central to the development of addiction.
  — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
• Bellamy, an author and academic based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, talks to Life Kit about how to identify limerence and break its cycle.
  — Marielle Segarra, NPR, 20 Sep. 2025
• These factors help explain why limerence can escalate so dramatically from initial attraction into overweening obsession.
  — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
• Academic and author Tom Bellamy, author of the book Smitten, explains how to recognize the signs of limerence, a romantic obsession characterized by extreme emotional highs and lows.
  — Malaka Gharib, NPR, 10 Dec. 2025
• Together, uncertainty and hope keep limerence alive, as experimental psychologist Dorothy Tennov, PhD, explained in her seminal work, Love and Limerence.
  — Amanda McCracken, SELF, 3 Feb. 2026