love bombing

English

Alternative forms

• love-bombing

Noun

love bombing (uncountable)

1. An attempt to influence a person by lavish demonstrations of attention and affection.
   • 2022 January 10, Gina Cherelus, “What Is ‘Love Bombing’?”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     But in cases of love bombing, attention flows in a single direction: One person tries to become the other’s whole world.

Related terms

• love-bomb (verb)