If you are asked to form a brand new word to replace the word 'love', what will that be?

Answer 1

adore..." I love you" = "I adore you" ??

Answer 2

To be more precise in our speech, use one of the ancient Greek words for love.

Philos (brotherly love)

Eros (erotic love, so we know which one we are talking about when he tells her that he loves her)

Storgae (family love)

Agape (undeserved loving kindness)

These are the four different kinds mentioned in the New Testament. The Western idea of 'romantic' love is relatively recent, growing out of 'courtly' love in the Middle Ages. An example of courtly love is adoring someone from a distance and never speaking to them about it. This might be suitable for fourteen year olds, but not adults.

Also, you must remember that choosing one's own mate is a relatively recent thing. For most of history, the adults got together and arranged marriages between their children and the neighbors, or people of the same social class, or within the same religion. It is only within the last few hundred years that this has changed, and in large parts of the world (Asia, Africa) arranged marriages are still made. I have spoken to some people who had an arranged marriage and they said they were happy. They chose not to resent the 'might-have-beens' and made the best of it.

The romantic feelings for one another came later, but they lasted longer and were appreciated more. Remember the movie 'Fiddler on the Roof...? where Tevye asks his wife if she loves him, and they discover that, after all those years, they do love each other. Like that. So they don't really miss out on anything, and being committed to the marriage (because it was arranged for them) bears out the wisdom of the parents in arranging it.

Of course, bad parents can arrange a poor marriage, but parents who have had a bad marriage can also learn and generally do want to prevent their children from making the same mistakes. It's a matter of perspective.

Boy, I really expanded the topic, didn't I?

Answer 3

I would not replace love with just one word. The real problem with the word love ist hat it is way to ambiguous. For instance, in Greek there are many different words that we translate as love. Each word representing a different type of love. I think that we should have words like that the are used for the various forms of love. That way there would be no confusion when someone says "I _______ you" because the blank would be filled with a word that described the appropriate type of "love." It would get rid of the phrase "I Love You but I am not in love with you." That would vanish because the term used for love would not be one of romantic love but of friendly love or brotherly love or something like that. It would make things alot less complex to have many words to be used to express the many aspects of the term love.

Answer 4

agape or some other ancient form. I think simply using the word love is not enough to describe the many facets of the emotions that the feeling can elicit.

Answer 5

Zohere

Answer 6

No cleaver man can fall in love!
so the new word will be folishness.

Answer 7

If I could make up a new word for love I'd call it 'Vilvia'.

-J.

Answer 8

"Mother" is the only word that replaces "Love"

Answer 9

Instead of saying,"I love you," I would say," I find you wonderful, in the most yummy way." Then I would whisk that man away, in my arms.

Answer 10

Unless love includes "caring" it is meaningless, so I would replace it with "caring".

Answer 11

My brand new word to replace "LOVE" would be "VELO"