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.