limerentn.adj.

1977 Observer 11 Sept. 3/9 What was interesting was that the delegates immediately took to the new word and were later heard using it among themselves, one man even describing himself as a wellfed limerant.

1995 Idaho Falls Post Reg. (Nexis) 30 July c1 Some groups share experiences, like the Society of Limerents (individuals ‘sharing their experiences of limerence, defined by the group as the state of being in love’).

1998 V. C. De Munck Romantic Love & Sexual Behavior iii. 79 Not everyone considers it [sc. being in love] illogical or abnormal, but even so strong an advocate as the nineteenth-century writer Stendhal spoke of it as a disease. Recovered former limerents among interviewees often agreed.

1979 D. Tennov Love & Limerence ii. 62 The limerent person develops a condition of sustained alertness, a heightening of awareness, and an enormous fund of energy to deploy in pursuit of the limerent aim.

1994 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Med. 87 195/2 There are four criteria according to which a limerent pairbond varies in degree.

1998 V. C. De Munck Romantic Love & Sexual Behavior iii. 80 If limerent, she would not have been able to stop thinking about Rhett.