besottedness
nounEtymology From besotted + -ness.
1
The state or quality of being besotted, infatuation, intellectual or moral blindness.
- ... but she is so pure, so delicate, that when I approach her, in spite of my besottedness, my love grows lambent.1862, Elizabeth Stoddard, The Morgesons:
- However he had marveled at the besottedness of a woman's devotion to a man so unworthy of any devotion at all, ...1972, John Williams, Augustus: