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Limerence is a state of mind which results from romantic feelings for another person, and typically includes intrusive, melancholic thoughts, or tragic concerns for the object of one's affection as well as a desire to form or maintain a relationship with the object of love and to have one's feelings reciprocated.
Psychologist Dorothy Tennov coined the term "limerence" as an alteration of the word "amorance" with no other etymology to describe a concept that had grown out of her work in the mid-1960s, when she interviewed over 500 people on the topic of love. In her book Love and Limerence, she writes that "to be in a state of limerence is to feel what is usually termed 'being in love.'" She coined the term to distinguish between this and other less-overwhelming emotions and to avoid implying that people who do not experience it cannot experience love
According to Tennov and others, limerence can be considered romantic love, passionate love or infatuation. It's also sometimes compared to a crush, but contrasted as being much more intense.
Anthropologist and author Helen Fisher has written that data collection on romantic attraction started with Love and Limerence, with Tennov collecting survey results, diaries, and other personal accounts. Fisher (who knew Tennov and corresponded with her) has commented that Tennov's concept had a sad component to it.
Limerence is associated with dopamine reward circuits in the brain. A long-running theory compared intrusive thinking associated with romantic love (and limerence) to obsessive-compulsive disorder with a hypothesis that this is related to lowered serotonin levels in the brain, but the experimental evidence is ambiguous.
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