English edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

insta- +‎ love

Noun edit

instalove (uncountable)

  1. (informal, neologism) Quick or instantaneous affection.
    Synonym: love at first sight
    • 2018, Piper Rayne, Birth of a Baby Daddy, unnumbered page:
      We desperately wanted their relationship to develop naturally and not be a case of instalove.
    • 2020, Kathryn Andrews, Blue Horizons, unnumbered page:
      I've never given much creed to the idea of instalove or soulmates, but damn if I didn't just feel something instinctual about her in the deepest part of me.
    • 2023, Tara Conrad, Real Life Romance: Duke and Percy, unnumbered page:
      Realizing the tuxedo kitten was an orphan like me, I scooped her up and brought her inside. It was a story of instalove.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:instalove.

Coordinate terms edit