what is love?

Answer 1

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Love is an emotion of intense attraction to, care for, or identification with persons, place(s) or thing(s); a desire to be close to, move and construct its object. This can include love for one's self.

However, love has several different meanings in the English language, from something that gives a little pleasure ("I loved that meal") to something that one would die for (patriotism, pair-bonding). And in contrast to the definition at the top, frequently people use the verb "love" to indicate want or desire for themselves as opposed to for another. For example: "I love ice cream," or even "I love her/him," does not refer to desiring wellness for ice cream, and it may not refer to desiring wellness for her/him, but rather to the desire for ice cream or for her/him felt by the speaker. The word also frequently indicates elevated appreciation or admiration: "I love that artist." Love can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an emotional state. In ordinary use, it usually refers to interpersonal love. As an experience usually felt by a person for another person, it is commonly considered impossible to describe. Dictionaries tend to define love as deep affection or fondness.[1] In colloquial use, according to polled opinion, the most favoured definitions of love include the words:[2]

1. life - someone or something for which you would give your life.
2. care - someone or something about which you care more than yourself.
3. friendship - favoured interpersonal associations or relationships.
4. union - a synergistic connection, as in the perfect union of two souls.
5. family - people related via common ancestry, religion, or race, etc.

The concept of love, however, is subject to debate. Some deny the existence of love, calling it a recently invented abstraction. Moreover, approximately 13 percent of cultures reportedly have no word for love.[3] Others maintain that love exists but is undefinable; being a quantity which is spiritual, metaphysical, or philosophical in nature, etc. Perhaps due to its emotional primacy, love is one of the most common themes in art.

Answer 2

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
Love is everything.

Answer 3

Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
~ Germaine De Stael ~
Love is the beauty of the soul.
Love is pure and trusting and faithful. Love is the best thing a person can give and receive. Love is NOT hurtful, spiteful, or vengeful. Love is amazing and true. Love is immortal
Love is when you feel like you can't leave without a person, and know that your life will never be the same if they chose to ever not be in it.

Answer 4

Love is when you can't stop thinking about that special person. Love is when you call him/her just to see what they are doing ten times a day. Love is caring sharing understandable communication and trust. Love is like a disease that catches on slowly or sometimes fast when you look at it. Love is priceless and you can't stop it from happening. Love is contagious and you never forget the person you loved. Love is paassionate sexy and playing. Love isn't expensive. But be careful who you love

Answer 5

Loving someone and being inlove with someone is two different things being inlove with someone is when you cannot live without the person, when they make you smile without saying a word, knowing them inside out likes ,dis-likes etc, loving and accepting them for who they are and not for the person you want them to be, always considers your feelings, cares about you, devoted to only you, being honest, being patient, being non-judgemental,a best friend, not someone you can live with but someone you CANNOT live without!!!!!!!!
Someone you comfortable with, someone you can share your deepest secrets with.Whenever you see them you get butterflies and it feels like the first time everytime!!
AND loving someone is like when having friends you love all of them but in a different way and if you were to lose their friendship you can still go on and find new friends, but when you inlove with someone no matter who you fall inlove with next it would never be the same and you can never forget the first guy/girl you fell inlov with!!!

Answer 6

love is trust ; you need to have trust between eachotheryou need to feel comfortable//when you love someone you want to be with them
and they make you happy<3 it's forgiveness and understanding.. When you love someone you think about them before yourself
You'd rather them be happy then you
You would rather be with them than anyone else You only fall in love once but that's all you needLove is forever and it never dies
When you're not with them you think about them
Without that person your life isn't complete
You can cry;scream;jump;run;yell;smile;laugh
DO ANYTHING in front of them, because it doesn't matter to them They love you for who you are.It's a commitment too but not a very hard one because it doesn't have to be if u really love them.


I wrote that. I miss my boyfriend.


haha love is fabulous.

Answer 7

Love is giving his dinner to the dog,

Answer 8

love is sharing caring,talking touching, communicating. being comfortable with that person. sharing everything you do and have with eachother. never judging him or her. comforting them. someone who has opened up your heart. someone who is there for you through the good and the bad.

Answer 9

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 10

LOVE IS LIFE!