instalove

alternative insta-love

1. informalneologismuncountableQuick or instantaneous affection.First known use 21st c.

   We desperately wanted their relationship to develop naturally and not be a case of instalove.

   2018, Piper Rayne, Birth of a Baby Daddy, unnumbered page

   3 more examples

   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.

   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

   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.

   2020, Kathryn Andrews, Blue Horizons, 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.

   2023, Tara Conrad, Real Life Romance: Duke and Percy, unnumbered page

   Synonyms: love at first sight