The state or condition of being deeply in love or fascinated with someone or something.
From 'enamour' + '-ment' (a suffix forming nouns indicating a state or condition). The '-ment' suffix comes from Latin '-mentum,' used to create abstract nouns from verbs. This word emerged in English to describe the emotional state resulting from being enamoured.
Medieval and Renaissance poets loved this word because it turned the fleeting feeling of falling in love into a concrete 'thing'—a state you could be in. It's wonderfully specific about describing not just the moment of attraction but the whole condition of being love-struck.
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