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Limerence

LIM-er-uhnss

n.Involuntary, obsessive infatuation; the state of being colonised by a person who may not know it.

Coined by psychologist Dorothy Tennov, 1979Established psychological concept

Studied in the literature since Tennov's 1979 work, but not a diagnosis in DSM-5 or ICD-11.

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