Definition of "flirtation" []

• The practice of flirting. (noun)
• A superficial and usually temporary romance. (noun)
• A brief involvement. (noun)

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• "From my psychotherapeutic activity, I know too well how much vileness and perversity are gently covered by the term flirtation nowadays in the circle of those who have learned early to conceal the traces."
• "The failing to do this is the greatest mistake of the present generation, for if girls be capable of nothing but morbid sentiment or what we term flirtation, they will naturally look to matrimony as their destiny and as a means of support -- a self-abasement from which no woman can fully recover, even under the most favorable circumstances."
• "And what would a ball be without this undercurrent of what we call flirtation; in reality, this yearning for the one in the multitude."