Love
What is Love?
Love to most people is like this: you see something or someone and you have feelings towards it that may be good or bad. But love isn’t just like that, it’s much more. Here are a few online opinions about love
Wikipedia’s definition of Love
Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection and to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which differs from the love of food. Most commonly, love refers to a feeling of strong attraction and emotional attachment. Love is also considered to be a virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection, as “the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another” It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, one’s self or animals. Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts. Love has been postulated to be a function to keep human beings together against menaces and to facilitate the continuation of the species. Ancient Greek philosophers identified five forms of love: essentially, familial love (in Greek, Storge), friendly love or platonic love (Philia), romantic love (Eros), guest love (Xenia) and divine love (Agape). Modern authors have distinguished further varieties of love: unrequited love, empty love, compassionate love, consummate love, infatuated love, self-love, and courtly love. Asian cultures have also distinguished Ren, Kama, Bhakti, Mettā, Ishq, Chesed, and other variants or symbioses of these states. The triangular theory of love suggests “intimacy, passion and commitment” are core components of love. Love has additional religious or spiritual meaning. This diversity of uses and meanings combined with the complexity of the feelings involved makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, compared to other emotional states.
Definitions:
The word “love” can have a variety of related but distinct meanings in different contexts. Many other languages use multiple words to express some of the different concepts that in English are denoted as “love”; one example is the plurality of Greek words for “love” which includes agape and eros. Cultural differences in conceptualizing love thus doubly impede the establishment of a universal definition. Although the nature or essence of love is a subject of frequent debate, different aspects of the word can be clarified by determining what isn’t love (antonyms of “love”). Love as a general expression of positive sentiment (a stronger form of like) is commonly contrasted with hate (or neutral apathy). As a less-sexual and more-emotionally intimate form of romantic attachment, love is commonly contrasted with lust. As an interpersonal relationship with romantic overtones, love is sometimes contrasted with friendship, although the word love is often applied to close friendships or platonic love. (Further possible ambiguities come with usages “girlfriend”, “boyfriend”, “just good friends”)Abstractly discussed, love usually refers to an experience one person feels for another. Love often involves caring for, or identifying with, a person or thing (cf. vulnerability and care theory of love), including oneself (cf. narcissism). In addition to cross-cultural differences in understanding love, ideas about love have also changed greatly over time. Some historians date modern conceptions of romantic love to courtly Europe during or after the Middle Ages, although the prior existence of romantic attachments is attested by ancient love poetry. The complex and abstract nature of love often reduces discourse of love to a thought-terminating cliché. Several common proverbs regard love, from Virgil’s “Love conquers all” to The Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love”. St. Thomas Aquinas, following Aristotle, defines love as “to will the good of another.” Bertrand Russell describes love as a condition of “absolute value,” as opposed to relative value Philosopher Gottfried Leibniz said that love is “to be delighted by the happiness of another.” Meher Baba stated that in love there is a “feeling of unity” and an “active appreciatio Philosopher Gottfried Leibniz said that love is “to be delighted by the happiness of another.” Biologist Jeremy Griffith defines love as “unconditional selflessness”.
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Webster’s Dictionary’s opinion
Love :noun \ ˈləv \: Definition of love: (Entry 1 of 2)
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(1): strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties maternal love for a child, (2): attraction based on sexual desire : affection and tenderness felt by lovers After all these years, they are still very much in love.,(3): affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interestslove for his old schoolmates
love: verb: \ ˈləv \loved; loving, Definition of love (Entry 2 of 2)
transitive verb
1: to hold dear : CHERISH, 2a: to feel a lover’s passion, devotion, or tenderness for, b(1): CARESS, (2): to fondle amorously, (3): to copulate with, 3: to like or desire actively : take pleasure in loved to play the violin, 4: to thrive in the rose loves sunlight
intransitive verb: to feel affection or experience desire
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Google’s Definition
- An intense feeling of deep affection. Example:“babies fill parents with feelings of love”
2. A great interest and pleasure in something. Example:“his love for football”
