instalove

English

Alternative forms

• insta-love

Etymology

From insta- +‎ love.

Noun

instalove (uncountable)

1. (informal, neologism) Quick or instantaneous affection. [from 21th c.]

   Synonym: love at first sight

   • 2007 March 23, John Blesso, “Raw Oysters and Steak Tartare”, in Sharehouse Confidential: Sex, Drugs and the Single Life Inside an Epicurean Beach House: a memoir, New York: Silk City Press, →ISBN, page 205:

     These women didn’t have time to fall in love. As soon as they met a guy who was Good Enough, they pushed a little button somewhere and were imbued with InstaLove.

   • 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

• instalust

Anagrams

• Olivetans, isovalent, Levatinos