What's the difference between enamor and infatuated?

Enamor


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; -- with of, or with, before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Never become so enamored of your own smarts that you stop signing up for life’s hard classes.
  • (2) It's interesting because even as some of the Big Green groups have gotten enamored of the ideas of ecosystem services and natural capital, there's this counter-narrative coming from the Global South and Indigenous communities.
  • (3) One of them, Tim Chogovadze, a longtime fan of Italian football, became enamored with Chelsea years ago, when the team contained a strong dose of Italian talent.
  • (4) One day after Donald Trump reiterated his admiration for Vladimir Putin , saying the Russian president was a better leader than Barack Obama, Republicans on Capitol Hill struggled to explain why their party’s presidential nominee was enamored with a man they have long cast as one of America’s primary foes.
  • (5) What is it about Kobe Bryant that the citizens of Los Angeles and Laker fans worldwide are so enamored with?
  • (6) The pope does seem to be enamored with solutions that are not pro-American in the slightest,” said Dom Giordano, a WPHT (1210 AM) talkshow host.
  • (7) Enamored of technology, we may at times use it unwisely.

Infatuated


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Infatuate
  • (a.) Overcome by some foolish passion or desire; affected by infatuation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rome in The Great Beauty Released 2013, directed by Paolo Sorrentino Facebook Twitter Pinterest I can’t think of any city so drenched with infatuated love, and yet also a kind of disillusion and disenchantment, as the Rome of Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty .
  • (2) Beyond court 73 Twitter was abuzz with idle speculation that one of the women lawyers present was clearly infatuated with Grant, effortlessly glamorous and with his spectacles off.
  • (3) But so far, I perceive a threatening mix of arrogance, self-infatuation and condescension.” It is tempting to see Podemos as a well-planned operation by a group of talented academics, following a populist script written by a line of radical thinkers, but that would be too simple.
  • (4) Once I got back to the UK, I was infatuated with finding similar adventures here.
  • (5) Returning to London in my 40s from a long spell abroad brought the shock of London house prices but also an infatuation with Brighton with its sea views, eccentric shops and green surrounding hills.
  • (6) "US fans of The Office could rally for this one," it admitted, "although its exuberant, boundless cynicism will test the demand for political satire in an Obama-infatuated America."
  • (7) Sure: it's got daddy issues, it's dominated by male characters, but it allows Lea Thompson as Lorraine to all but steal the show, hamming it up both as a chain-smoking, vodka-sinking washout and an infatuated teen (plus, in II, a surgically enhanced doormat, and, in III, an oirish farmer's wife).
  • (8) Dr Bill Knocke, head of the civil engineering faculty whose staff and students were among the dead, said he understood that Cho had gone on Monday morning to the dormitory of a female student, Emily Hilscher, 19, who was not his girlfriend but with whom he may have been infatuated.
  • (9) We failed to notice that our runaway infatuation with the sleek toys produced by the likes of Apple and Samsung – allied to our apparently insatiable appetite for Facebook, Google and other companies that provide us with "free" services in exchange for the intimate details of our daily lives – might well turn out to be as powerful a narcotic as soma was for the inhabitants of Brave New World.
  • (10) The concept of pathological infatuation or what this author has termed the Blue Angel syndrome is presented.
  • (11) Born in Swansea, he carved out a career on BBC Radio Wales, before a move to television in the form of Marion and Geoff, a mock-umentary series in which he played a divorced taxi driver still infatuated with his ex-wife; Coogan was the associate producer.
  • (12) An infatuation that, naturally, died long before Erasure sang about "l'amour" and just as the first crop of Generation Y-ers were beginning school.
  • (13) So let's remove those rose-tinted ski goggles and take a closer look at the objects of our infatuation … Protesters clash with police at an asylum centre near Copenhagen in 2008.
  • (14) Maps to The Stars by David Cronenberg is a competition movie avowedly about that most superficially attractive but difficult and elusive subject: celebrity and our current infatuation with it.
  • (15) The pair of them were so instantly infatuated with each other's possibilities that on their second meeting they planned the Smiths in detail.
  • (16) And embarrassing as it may be for those of us infatuated with the latest technology to admit, it is with the difficult case especially that old-fashioned technology so often must be depended upon.
  • (17) Now he's at it again, with another part from which Harry Potter would run a mile: in Kill Your Darlings , he plays gay beat poet Allen Ginsberg , sexually infatuated with the dangerous Lucien Carr .
  • (18) Joyce suspected her husband was having an affair with Deng, with whom he was reportedly infatuated.
  • (19) "He's got an earring, he wears leather and you're totally infatuated with him.
  • (20) Why am I – why is everyone else she knew – so infatuated with Yusor?

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