Infatuation /(?)/

In·fat·u·a·tion

Infatuation

n.
  1. The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates.
    The infatuations of the sensual and frivolous part of mankind are amazing; but the infatuations of the learned and sophistical are incomparably more so.
    Such is the infatuation of self-love.