could anyone define love for me?

Question

perhaps its stupid or something,but i have no idea

Answer 1

There is no real answer to this question but what I have learned of what love is to me and that is the word LOVE itself holds the answer.......

(L)isten: and Validate them by hearing and empathizing.
(O)verlook: their minor character flaws as they will overlook yours.
(V)alue: who they are and what they mean to you.
(E)xpress: how you love them not just with words but with actions.

Answer 2

Language is a tricky thing. Before defining love, we need to figure out what sort of thing it is. I think love is two sorts of thing: a virtue and an emotion.

To have a virtue is to be inclined to behave in certain ways in certain circumstances. Virtues are long-lasting and not casually acquired or changed. To have the virtue of love would mean being inclined to behave in a loving way in regard of the one(s) you love.

When we have the virtue of love, we are also subject to the emotion of love. Having the virtue doesn't mean you feel the emotion every moment of every day (though it might seem that way at first). Emotions are recurring (they repeat) and each occurrance lasts a much shorter time than the virtue lasts. That is, while you have the virtue, you feel the emotion on many occasions, but not all the time. It's the same with all emotions, they are relatively brief.

We might ask what is the opposite of love. Hate is the obvious answer, but what is hate?

The opposite of a virtue is a vice. Aristotle said that for each virtue there are two vices - one is too much of the virtue and the other is too little of it. Too little love is indifference - it means having no particular attitude to someone, neither positive nor negative, when you *should* have an attitude to them . Too much love is infatuatation or love-sickness; it quickly becomes repulsive to both beloved and lover.

The opposite of the emotion of love might very well be hate. When you *should* have a strongly negative attitude to someone, and do, you feel the emotion of hate, but not every minute of every day, only when you think of them.. The emotion is bad if you *should not* have that attitude but do have it.

Okay, what I've said here is not yet a complete definition of love, but I think it's a start.

Answer 3

Love is a condition or phenomenon of emotional primacy, or absolute value. Love generally includes an emotion of intense attraction to either another person, a place, or thing; and may also include the aspect of caring for or finding identification with those objects, including self-love. Love can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an emotional state. In ordinary use, it usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience usually felt by a person for another person. Love is commonly considered impossible to define.

The concept of love, however, is subject to debate. Some deny the existence of absolutist love, calling it a recently invented abstraction. Moreover, approximately 13 percent of cultures reportedly have no word for love.[1] Others maintain that love exists but is indefinable; being a quantity which is spiritual, metaphysical, or philosophical in nature. Love is one of the most common themes in art. An unfinished debate about the authenticity of love as other-regard began with Friedrich Nietzsche's charge that love is merely an ideology constructed by the weak to mask "resentment" about their lack of power. Critics of Nietzsche's view find gratuitous his assumptions that self-interest and the "will to power" overshadow all other concerns.

Answer 4

There are different levels of love... There is the love you feel for your family, which makes you feel strongly protective of them (with normal families anyway) and you feel a warm bond with family members. There is the love you feel for friends, which can be very strong depending on how dear that friend is to you. Falling in love is like an addiction in it's first stages... you feel you cannot breath without that person close to you and everything else in life is suddenly unimportant when compared to your need for them. Later on even though you may lose these first crazy emotions for that same person, you can still know you are in love with them by the way you feel inside. Love is a wonderful feeling when all is well and going fine... but it cuts like a knife if it all goes wrong, such as the one you're in love with dumps you or you loose a love one in death, but it's still something worth looking for despite the downfalls.

Answer 5

Love is an oxymoron. It's a condition of controlled selfishness.

You meet someone. That someone makes you feel good. You want to be around that someone more and more because of that good feeling. You discover that when you do good things for that someone, that someone feels good, and when that someone feels good, it makes you feel even better. So, you act in a way that benefits that someone so that those feelings continue. And, in a successful relationship, that someone is doing and feeling the exact same thing.

Love is when you'd rather die than give that good feeling up. It's when you're willing to give anything and everything in order to make that someone's good feeling continue, even to your own detriment (because it *is* possible to do something that acts against your own best interests and in favor of them at the same time).

As I said, an oxymoron.

Answer 6

our word "love" is inadequate. you can say "i love tacos" and "i love my friend," but do they really mean the same thing?

in the greek language, there are 3 words that we translate into "love," but which are actually very unique and different.

phileo is friendship kind of love... a soul connection, a liking, a deep caring for. this is the kind of love you'd have for your best friend.

agape is "a love of the will" - it is a choice to commit and go deeper than just a strong liking. it is the kind of love that will lay down it's life for someone else... that will hold fast on good days and bad.

eros is intoxicating love... passion, attraction, desire. it is love that is for someone beloved, someone that deserves lavish attention. it's knowing intimately, becoming one with eachother.

each of these 3 loves can work together and develop into something unbreakable. love is 3-d!

Answer 7

be careful to define Love. Love is Divine quantity, cannot be defined, yet, attempt to define it will diminish love to the extend of definition...and definition based on subjective senses would not cover the truth of a fragment defined... So love will be distorted...as it happen with humanity...in what we believe, so be it.

Answer 8

It's not stupid at all, it's the feeling I get when I wake up in the morning next to the man I love, it's pitter-patters in my chest just thinking about him, it's total bliss when I am in his arms. You will feel it someday, just be patient. It's truly HEAVEN!!! Good Luck.

Answer 9

love isn't wat u find just in the street it's with that someone u hold dearly in ur heart and u have feelings 4! U now it when ur with that person. Don't worry u'll find it eventually. u don't even have to be married to experience love 4 the 1st time either. Love is just feelings 4 someone u like alot! hope that helps!

Answer 10

It takes two kind of people to answer this question for you, unfortunately I am neither.

its not something that should be answered honestly, i would stick to feeling it. That seems to work pretty good for me.

Answer 11

well LOVE is every thing sweet & good in this life , LOVE is when your heart start 2 beet so hard when just thinking of that person , LOVE is when u smile by your self just of remebring him / her.