What is 'LOVE'? what is its meaning?

Question

describe what 'Love' means to you.

- how would you describe 'Love'?

this is a personal question / answer ,
no dictionaries.

OKAY, ONLY PERSONAL ANSWERS AND PERSONAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE MEANINGS OF 'LOVE'
- say what 'love' is or should be.

in your own opinions.

Answer 1

Dictionary.com defines it this way:


love  /lʌv/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[luhv] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb, loved, lov‧ing.

–noun 1. a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
2. a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend.
3. sexual passion or desire.
4. a person toward whom love is felt; beloved person; sweetheart.
5. (used in direct address as a term of endearment, affection, or the like): Would you like to see a movie, love?
6. a love affair; an intensely amorous incident; amour.
7. sexual intercourse; copulation.
8. (initial capital letter) a personification of sexual affection, as Eros or Cupid.
9. affectionate concern for the well-being of others: the love of one's neighbor.
10. strong predilection, enthusiasm, or liking for anything: her love of books.
11. the object or thing so liked: The theater was her great love.
12. the benevolent affection of God for His creatures, or the reverent affection due from them to God.
13. Chiefly Tennis. a score of zero; nothing.
14. a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter L.
–verb (used with object) 15. to have love or affection for: All her pupils love her.
16. to have a profoundly tender, passionate affection for (another person).
17. to have a strong liking for; take great pleasure in: to love music.
18. to need or require; benefit greatly from: Plants love sunlight.
19. to embrace and kiss (someone), as a lover.
20. to have sexual intercourse with.
–verb (used without object) 21. to have love or affection for another person; be in love.
—Verb phrase22. love up, to hug and cuddle: She loves him up every chance she gets.
—Idioms23. for love, a. out of affection or liking; for pleasure.
b. without compensation; gratuitously: He took care of the poor for love.

24. for the love of, in consideration of; for the sake of: For the love of mercy, stop that noise.
25. in love, infused with or feeling deep affection or passion: a youth always in love.
26. in love with, feeling deep affection or passion for (a person, idea, occupation, etc.); enamored of: in love with the girl next door; in love with one's work.
27. make love, a. to embrace and kiss as lovers.
b. to engage in sexual activity.

28. no love lost, dislike; animosity: There was no love lost between the two brothers.


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[Origin: bef. 900; (n.) ME; OE lufu, c. OFris luve, OHG luba, Goth lubō; (v.) ME lov(i)en, OE lufian; c. OFris luvia, OHG lubōn to love, L lubēre (later libēre) to be pleasing; akin to lief]


—Synonyms 1. tenderness, fondness, predilection, warmth, passion, adoration. 1, 2. Love, affection, devotion all mean a deep and enduring emotional regard, usually for another person. Love may apply to various kinds of regard: the charity of the Creator, reverent adoration toward God or toward a person, the relation of parent and child, the regard of friends for each other, romantic feelings for another person, etc. Affection is a fondness for others that is enduring and tender, but calm. Devotion is an intense love and steadfast, enduring loyalty to a person; it may also imply consecration to a cause. 2. liking, inclination, regard, friendliness. 15. like. 16. adore, adulate, worship.
—Antonyms 1, 2. hatred, dislike. 15, 16. detest, hate.
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source love (lv) Pronunciation Key
n.
A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.
A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance.

Sexual passion.
Sexual intercourse.
A love affair.
An intense emotional attachment, as for a pet or treasured object.
A person who is the object of deep or intense affection or attraction; beloved. Often used as a term of endearment.
An expression of one's affection: Send him my love.

A strong predilection or enthusiasm: a love of language.
The object of such an enthusiasm: The outdoors is her greatest love.
Love Mythology. Eros or Cupid.
often Love Christianity. Charity.
Sports. A zero score in tennis.

v. loved, lov·ing, loves
v. tr.
To have a deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward (a person): We love our parents. I love my friends.
To have a feeling of intense desire and attraction toward (a person).
To have an intense emotional attachment to: loves his house.

To embrace or caress.
To have sexual intercourse with.
To like or desire enthusiastically: loves swimming.
Theology. To have charity for.
To thrive on; need: The cactus loves hot, dry air.

v. intr.
To experience deep affection or intense desire for another.

Idioms:
for love
Out of compassion; with no thought for a reward: She volunteers at the hospital for love.
for love or money
Under any circumstances. Usually used in negative sentences: I would not do that for love or money.
for the love of
For the sake of; in consideration for: did it all for the love of praise.
in love
Deeply or passionately enamored: a young couple in love.
Highly or immoderately fond: in love with Japanese painting; in love with the sound of her own voice.
no love lost
No affection; animosity: There's no love lost between them.


[Middle English, from Old English lufu. See leubh- in Indo-European Roots.]
Synonyms: love, affection, devotion, fondness, infatuation
These nouns denote feelings of warm personal attachment or strong attraction to another person. Love is the most intense: marrying for love. Affection is a less ardent and more unvarying feeling of tender regard: parental affection. Devotion is earnest, affectionate dedication and implies selflessness: teachers admired for their devotion to children. Fondness is strong liking or affection: a fondness for small animals. Infatuation is foolish or extravagant attraction, often of short duration: lovers blinded to their differences by their mutual infatuation.

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American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms - Cite This Source
love

In addition to the idioms beginning with love, also see all's fair in love and war; course of true love; fall in love; for the love of; labor of love; make love; misery loves company; no love lost; not for love or money; puppy love; somebody up there loves me.


The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.


I suppose looking at this comprehensive definition and comparing it w/ my personal experience I imagine my conclusion would be: "It's just something that you would have to feel for yourself" ...good luck...

Answer 2

love has a design system though its been around for ever folk still dont know what the system is.Love between two people is designed to last eternal, not till death parts first man meets woman, they fall in love, its an eternal partnership. God is the author of marriage, it sanctifies sex and makes it devine in his sight, then come the children, mam ans dads love is extended to them, the one responsable is the man for the families well being,
the wife is responsable for being the mans supporter in doing what is right.a marriage cerramony is supposed to be eternal and not till death parts.There is also a sealing process where the children can be sealed to the parents for time and eternity, and their children and so on, if this system was unbroken, it would mean that the family of the earth was unbroken, Love is going through trials and tribulations, together, and coming through victorious, turning away from temptation of outher men or women
and staying faithfull to the end. Forever.

Answer 3

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
Leo Tolstoy

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Euripides

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
David Wilkerson

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
James A. Baldwin

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.
Smiley Blanton

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham

Answer 4

Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, it does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.

Answer 5

My mother always said you know your in love with someone 'because the relationship just works'.

The relationship carries on with no difficulties worth mentioning, and both of you are happy.

Answer 6

As our catechism song goes:
Love is something that you give it away.
give it away.... give it away....
and it comes right back to you....
its just like a magic penny.....
hold it tight and you wont have any...
share it, spend it, give it away....
and it comes right back to you!!!!


love is not loving until it hurts....
actually... philosophically speaking.... love has four dimensions:
1. loving of parents or family... storge
2. loving of self.... narcissism
3. loving of friends.... philia
4. loving everybody.... agape
you can even look at wikipedia on their difinition of Love..... the site is below

Answer 7

Unconditional acceptance of another person

Answer 8

you mean:

simply love - short time of sex & nothing else,
only real love - a lot of sex, forget all around, school, job...
first love - just looking, smiling, uneasy
else...

that is not all folks...

Answer 9

in the words of the late john lennon it is all you need

Answer 10

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/love;_ylt=AvrRto8opPTq9YyerAZarGqsgMMF

Answer 11

When you love someone, quite simply you can't stop thinking about them..................