pash
Sudden intense attraction
Pash is informal for a brief, intense infatuation or crush: She had a pash on the new teacher.
More common in British and Australian English than American.
The word also appears as a verb meaning to kiss passionately, though this use is rarer: They were pashing in the back row.
Romantic liaison, often illicit
- trystSecret romantic meeting
- rendezvousScheduled meeting at agreed location
- flirtationPlayful romantic attention
- wooingRomantic pursuit of another
courtship · sweetheart · lover · paramour · beloved · admirer · suitor · fling
Compress with force
- smittenPowerfully attracted to someone
- fancyElaborate or decorative
- obsessionPersistent, intrusive preoccupation
- fixationPersistent mental attachment
swoon · heartthrob · besotted · moonstruck · lovesick · head-over-heels · twitterpated · starry-eyed
amour
Romantic liaison, often illicit
- trystSecret romantic meeting
- rendezvousScheduled meeting at agreed location
- flirtationPlayful romantic attention
wooing · courtship · sweetheart · lover · paramour · beloved · admirer · suitor · fling · affair
crush
Compress with force
- smittenPowerfully attracted to someone
- fancyElaborate or decorative
- obsessionPersistent, intrusive preoccupation
fixation · swoon · heartthrob · besotted · moonstruck · lovesick · head-over-heels · twitterpated · starry-eyed · lovestruck
smooch
Informal term for kissing
buss · makeout · necking · canoodle · French-kiss · smack · muah · nuzzle · osculation · embrace
pashindifference
Lack of interest
coldness · apathy · dispassion · dispassionateness · detachment
pashtrue love
Authentic romantic connection
committed relationship · aversion · repulsion · hatred · lifelong bond
- passion fruitTart tropical vine produce
- throes of passionIntense emotional or physical abandon
- passionate cryIntense vocal expression
- crime of passionImpulsive violent act from emotion
- passionate kissIntense romantic lip contact
- passion projectSelf-motivated creative undertaking