what is love?

Question

compare it with friendship

Answer 1

Love is a profound feeling of tender affection for or intense attraction to another. It is considered a deep, ineffable feeling shared in passionate or intimate interpersonal relationships. However, in different contexts, the word love has a variety of related but distinct meanings: in addition to romantic love, which is characterized by a mix of emotional and sexual desire, other forms include Platonic love, religious love, familial love, and the more casual application of the term to anyone or anything that one considers strongly pleasurable, enjoyable, or desirable, including activities and foods. This diverse range of meanings in a single word is commonly contrasted with the plurality of Greek words for love, reflecting the word's versatility and complexity.

Although clearly and consistently defining love is a difficult task, and often a subject of much debate, different aspects of the word can be clarified by determining what isn't "love". As a general expression of positive sentiment (a stronger form of like), love is commonly contrasted with hate (or neutral apathy); as a less sexual and more "pure" form of romantic attachment, love is commonly contrasted with lust; and as an interpersonal relationship with romantic overtones, love is commonly contrasted with friendship, though other definitions of the word love may be applied to close friendships in certain contexts.

Answer 2

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 love. Others call it a recently invented abstraction, sometimes dating the "invention" to courtly Europe during or after the middle ages (though this is contradicted by the sizable body of ancient love poetry). Others maintain that love really exists, is not an abstraction, but is indefinable; being a quantity which is spiritual, metaphysical, or philosophical in nature. Some psychologists maintain that love is the action of lending one's "boundary" or "self esteem" to another. And others attempt to define love and apply the definition to everyday life.

Answer 3

Love is the giving from the inner self. Love is more than friendship. Love exceeds the boundaries of friendship. Love comes after friendship, but it is higher on hierachy. Love endures storms and weatherings much longer than friendship. But there can't be love without friendship.

Answer 4

There are various kinds of love. Love for one's family, friends, and compassionate love, romantic love for a stranger whos beauty was noticed by the eye of the beholder. Love is a feeling which someone has when they meet another person with whom they get along with because they adore each others looks, like each others attitude, live a similar pattern of life etc.

Answer 5

love is a part of life. if u never love u didn't had ur actual life. but u have loved someone then u have got everything.
1)when u seek 4 someone with much curiosity, its LOVE.
2)the person u say that u hate most, the same peron u LOVE most.
3)if u share ur every moment with someone then u r in LLOVE with him/her.
4)if u think about a person throught the day then u r LOVE with him.
LOVE is something that u do with anyone, beyond agelimit,anywhere, anyhow. its attraction, affection, kindness, and trust between two people.

Answer 6

love is friendship without friendship theres no love

Answer 7

we love what gives us pleasure and hate what gives us pain

friendship is relation between two people who are getting more pleasure than pain from each other and consider the other to be a reasonably constant source of more pleasure than pain

we feel infinite love for a source of infinite pleasure

of course only the infinite can give us infinite pleasure

and there can be only one infinite thing - and an infinite thing must include everything

Answer 8

Love is full of feeling of happiness which may be fore ever with you like friendship.

Answer 9

friendship is love

Answer 10

its very simple love is friendship if u can make someone a good friend then u can love any one and maintain loyalty