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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

In-făt'ū-ā'tion, n.

noun

n. [L. Lat. infatuatio, Fr. infatuation, Sp. infatuacion.]

  1. The act of infatuating, or affecting with folly.
  2. The state of being infatuated; folly; stupefaction.

The infatuations of the sensual and frivolous part of mankind are amazing; but the infatuations of the learned and sophistical are incomparably more so. I. Taylor.