# A word I simply don't recall hearing - Limerence

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**Created:** [December 4, 2016, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-word-i-simply-dont-recall-hearing-limerence/773821 "2016-12-04T15:26:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-word-i-simply-dont-recall-hearing-limerence/773821/1 "2016-12-04T15:26:16Z")

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\*\*Limerence \*\*- basically a feeling of infatuated obsession.

Came across it in this Sunday’s NYTimes Modern Love column. Don’t recall ever hearing it or reading it. Interesting.

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