fascination

1. 1.

   the state of being intensely interested (as by awe or terror)

   Synonymscaptivation

   Broaderenchantment
2. 2.

   a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual

   Synonymscaptivationenchantmententhrallment

   Broaderliking
3. 3.

   the capacity to attract intense interest

   “he held the children spellbound with magic tricks and other fascinations”

   Broaderattraction

Other forms of fascination

plural

fascinations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fascination

What does fascination mean?

fascination means "the state of being intensely interested (as by awe or terror)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fascination?

fascination has 4 syllables: fas-ci-na-tion. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /ˌfæsəˈneɪʃən/.

What is another word for fascination?

Close synonyms include captivation, captivation, enchantment, enthrallment. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fascination a common word?

fascination is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with fascination?

73 words rhyme with fascination. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.