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.