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Isn't Limerence just another way of saying Love Addict?

I stumbled across the word Limerence about a year ago and was fascinated. On Limerence Dorothy Tennov, an American psychologist, introduced the term limerence with her publication in 1979 called ‘love and limerence’. According to Tennov limerence can often be what is meant when one expresses having intense feelings of attachment, preoccupations with the love object, and (as new research on brain chemistry shows) a similar mind-state to obsessive compulsive disorder. Limerence has certain basic components according to Tennov: Intrusive…

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First writings on Limerence

Source Love and Limerence: the Experience of Being in Love by Dorothy Tennov

The limerent reaction (referring to the state of being “in love”) begins, usually at a point discernible at the time and later recalled. Sexual attraction as such need not be experienced, although (a) the person is someone you view as a possible sexual partner, and (b) the initial “admiration” may be, or seem to be, primarily physical attraction.

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Limerence, what is it?

Limerence can often be what is meant when one expresses having intense feelings of attachment, preoccupations with the love object, and (as new research on brain chemistry shows) a similar mind-state to obsessive compulsive disorder. [1] According to Tennov, there are three types of love: limerence, what she calls “loving attachment” (the long-lasting love people are capable of having), and “loving affection,” the bond that exists between an individual and his or her parents and children. [2]. In her model,…

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