To be mesmerized is to be fascinated, obsessed, and so attentive to something that you appear to be under a spell. Of the words in the English language, “mesmerized” has a relatively recent origin. In fact, it was produced s a result of a fascinating (mesmerizing?) type of pseudoscience that was popular in the 18th …
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