what is love?

Question

for it is not sex, lust, nor infaction, then what is it?

Answer 1

Love is an (unexplainable) emotion.
It is also a topic asked and asked on yahoo answers.
Love is what the world needs now.
Love...
Knowing someone so well and wanting to wake up next to them,
giving unconditionally, having children, knowing God...

There are so many things one can say about love.

It is a topic that allows for much discussion.
The types of love, why we love, what is love, and so on.


Peace.

Answer 2

To feel love is to be aware of a deep loss that you have never felt or experienced before - it is something so draining that it brings tears to your eyes in a heartbeat and sends you over the edge at the first few notes of a song. It keeps you up with cold shivers at night and makes you empty on the fullest days of your life. Yet all human beings strive to know love - why I cannot tell you, but the only thing I do know is that to truly love something you must let it go.

Answer 3

Love is simply a level of attachment to an object or concept.

Varying levels or types of love are given different distinctions, such as the variance in how you might love a particularly decent piece of chocolate cake, to how you might love a close friend, to how you might love your wife.

Plato wrote a great deal on Love, and how to define it, and also made a number of disctinctions therein.

Much of this can be found at the following web address:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/love/

Much of Plato's though on love comes from The Symposium.

Answer 4

Love is the desire to be with someone on an emotional level. To feel hurt when someone hurts them, to feel sad when they are not happy, to get frustrated when they are bereaved, to be happy when they are estatic. My friend, this is just an idiots description of the wordless beuty of love. Love is the only thing hollywood actually got right(although I do admit they sometimes dramaticize it) but for your benefit I think you should try it out.

Answer 5

when you cant: sleep
eat
be rational
feel pain
when everything around you is numb and every nerve ending in your body tries to get your attention simultaneously.when you feel that you have conquered the world and absolute bliss runs through your veins making your hair stick out of you goosebumps.

so it isn't just one word,one feeling but it is more like a syndrome or a multifaceted stone.

Answer 6

Main Entry: 1love
Pronunciation: 'l&v
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English lufu; akin to Old High German luba love, Old English lEof dear, Latin lubEre, libEre to please
1 a (1) : strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties (2) : attraction based on sexual desire : affection and tenderness felt by lovers (3) : affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interests b : an assurance of love
2 : warm attachment, enthusiasm, or devotion
3 a : the object of attachment, devotion, or admiration b (1) : a beloved person : DARLING -- often used as a term of endearment (2) British -- used as an informal term of address
4 a : unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another: as (1) : the fatherly concern of God for humankind (2) : brotherly concern for others b : a person's adoration of God
5 : a god or personification of love
6 : an amorous episode : LOVE AFFAIR
7 : the sexual embrace : COPULATION
8 : a score of zero (as in tennis)
9 capitalized, Christian Science : GOD
- at love : holding one's opponent scoreless in tennis
- in love : inspired by affection

Answer 7

Peck's definition of love: "The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth."

Scott Peck, "The Roads Less Traveled".

Answer 8

love is the ability to accept the interesting imperfections of life.. it is the feeling of appreciation which can never be degraded-- it continues to grow...
honestly, love need not to be defined... its value remains untouched by the seemingly right definitions... it must be felt and expressed.. nothing more

Answer 9

An obsession with that which fascinates you to the point of blissful self-destruction.

Answer 10

love is unselfish givings. it is also when there are bad times,they half as bad ,and the good times are twice as good,because you have someone to share them with.