Why this word is great
FORELSKET — [Noun] The giddy, weightless euphoria of beginning to fall in love. From Norwegian forelsket ("in love"), itself from forelske ("to fall in love"). Unlike "infatuation" (which implies a superficial or fleeting attraction) or "amour" (which broadly denotes love without the specificity of its first tremors), forelsket is the dizzying, almost chemical rush of new affection. It is the way the world sharpens around the edges when their name appears on your phone, the way time stretches thin in the breathless pause before a first kiss, the way the air itself hums with possibility—proof that the heart, for all its predictability, still remembers how to surprise.