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Meanings of fascination in English

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fascinação
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A feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual.

        fascinação
        Usage of fascination in English
        1
        The great question-andglobal fascination-isabout where that story goes from here.
        The way of the world
        2
        For years he had read with fascination Johannes's words in the book.
        The preacher
        3
        The Kennedy family continues to exert a fascination over the American public.
        The Irish Times
        4
        She also started her fascination with human bones at a young age.
        Wired
        5
        She forgot the great danger in the fascination of the terrible spectacle.
        The Red Acorn
        6
        Nonetheless, all these years later, the fascination with their story remains undimmed.
        The Guardian
        7
        The Muslims regarded the new Turkey and Iran with suspicion and fascination.
        A history of god: the 4000-year quest of judaism, christianity, ...
        8
        Arjun's fascination with seeing a rootstock human had given way to impatience.
        Seveneves
        9
        The Pax held no fascination for me, although offworld travel certainly had.
        The Hyperion Cantos
        10
        Whatever fascination the house might once have held for me was gone.
        Bloodfever
        11
        There is infinite and perennial fascination in the contemplation of the future.
        The Jericho Road
        12
        Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination; velocity causes the stillness of fascination.
        Girl, Interrupted
        13
        There is a fascination in the unchangeable features of the Nile regions.
        The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the ...
        14
        But I have no more liking for it; the fascination is gone.
        The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
        15
        There is strange fascination in looking at familiar scenes in unfamiliar aspect.
        What Necessity Knows
        16
        I've assumed a general fascination with the subject of my personal obsessions.
        Woken furies
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        Portuguese
        fascinação
        Fascination through the time
        Fascination across language varieties
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