Today’s word is limerence:
Limerence, as posited by psychologist Dorothy Tennov, is an attempt at a scientific study into the nature of romantic love. The meaning of the word, which was coined by Tennov in 1977, is an involuntary cognitive and emotional state in which a person feels an intense romantic desire for another person, the limerent object.
(As posted in Wikipedia).
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I was under the impression that ‘limerence’ meant a type of romantic love that lacked any accompanying sexual desire. Unfortunately I’m all too familiar with this feeling.