情じょう痴ち

noun

blind love; love madness

Literary noun for a state of being so consumed by love or passion that one loses reason. Often carries a negative, obsessive connotation. Compare 痴情 (ちじょう), which can also mean blind passion but is sometimes used for jealousy or foolish love.

See also: 痴情 (ちじょう)

• 彼かれは情じょう痴ちに陥おちいり、仕し事ごとも手てにつかなくなった。

  He fell into blind love and became unable to focus on his work.

• その小しょう説せつは、情じょう痴ちに狂くるう男だん女じょの悲ひ劇げきを描えがいている。

  The novel depicts the tragedy of a man and a woman driven mad by obsessive love.