fascination
French, noun/fa.si.na.sjɔ̃/
fascination is a French feminine noun meaning “fascination” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action à distance qui passe par le regard pour nuire ou tuer, mauvais œil”.
What does fascination mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefascination
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action à distance qui passe par le regard pour nuire ou tuer, mauvais œil. 2. Faculté qu’ont certains animaux de fasciner. 3. Action de fasciner et résultat de cette action.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fascination
- fascinations plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fascination?
- /fa.si.na.sjɔ̃/
- \fa.si.na.sjɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fascination
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fascination in French?
fascination appears 2.9 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).