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# fascination

noun (fascinations, plural)

«fascination» in the English dictionary: everyday and Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Fascination is a strong interest that holds your attention so you cannot look away. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fascination/#m1)
2. Fascination is the power to attract and charm someone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fascination/#m2)

### In the lessons

in the tales a person's beauty or charm holds others, like a snake's gaze over a bird

### Examples

- Helen still had all her beauty and fascination. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fascination/#x1)
- Circe began to use her fascinations on him. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fascination/#x2)
- He felt the fascination of her eyes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fascination/#x3)
- The book has a fascination for children. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fascination/#x4)

### Note

nothing for maths

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

a powerful pull that holds the attention or seems to bewitch someone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fascination/#m1)

### Then and now

Today it means a strong interest; here it means a magical power to charm or bewitch, like a snake's hold on a bird.

### Examples

- Menelaus now sought Helen in the royal palace, who, being immortal, still retained all her former beauty and fascination. (Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fascination/#x1)
- But all warnings and past experience were forgotten by Odysseus when Circe commenced to exercise upon him her fascinations and blandishments. (Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fascination/#x2)
- And, besides, he felt the fascination of Ludovine’s eyes, which looked at him as a snake looks at a little bird. (The Green Fairy Book) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fascination/#x3)

### Note

Today: charm, spell.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «fascination» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fascination/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«fascination» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/fascination.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «fascination» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fascination/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«fascination» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/fascination.html) on Mova free.