Definition of "love-sickness" [love•-sick•ness]

• The state of being love-sick. (noun)

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• "Carolina's love-sickness, however, is more good-humored than properly sarcastic, and it does not seem to properly constitute an attack on the sentimental model nor to question in any way its adoption in the rest of the novel."
• "Hindus there are ten stages of love-sickness: (1) Love of the eyes"
• "Another writer on writing from the heart: A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love-sickness."