Original sentence: According to Tennov, it can be experienced as intense joy or as extreme despair, depending on whether or not the feelings are requited.Limerence is the name for an involuntary cognitive and emotional state similar to infatuation, posited by psychologist Dorothy Tennov, in which a "limerent individual" feels an intense romantic desire for a "limerent object".Tennov describes limerence as beginning with a barely perceptible feeling of increased interest in the limerent object, that, if nurtured by appropriate conditions, can grow to enormous intensity, although in most cases it subsequently subsides to a low level
Edited sentence: It can be experienced as intense joy or as extreme despair, depending on whether or not the feelings are requited.Limerence begins with a barely perceptible feeling of increased interest in the limerent object, that, if nurtured by appropriate conditions, can grow to enormous intensity, although in most cases it subsequently subsides to a low level.Limerence is an involuntary cognitive and emotional state similar to infatuation, posited by psychologist Dorothy Tennov, in which a "limerent individual" feels an intense romantic desire for a "limerent object"