Desire,
sexual attraction, or intense feelings of love towards a
fictional character, similar in strength and application of those felt towards real people.
Fictophiles rare experience fictophilia exclusively while being unable to connect with real people, but often fictophilic desires persist even when the person is in a serious real life
relationship.
After realising she judged every
relationship by how much like
Hermione Granger her
girlfriends were, Jane came to suspect she might meet the criteria for fictophilia.
He was so in love with Dean Winchester, he knew it was fictophilic.