What is love?

Answer 1

(plural loves)
1. very strong affection: an intense feeling of tender affection and compassion
Young children need unconditional love.

2. passionate attraction and desire: a passionate feeling of romantic desire and sexual attraction
3. somebody much loved: somebody who is loved romantically
He was her first real love.

4. romantic affair: a romantic affair, possibly sexual
5. strong liking: strong liking for or pleasure gained from something
his love of music

6. something eliciting enthusiasm: something that elicits deep interest and enthusiasm in somebody
Music was his greatest love but he also liked ballet.

7. beloved: used as an affectionate word to somebody loved
8. U.K. term of friendly address: used as a friendly term of address, usually to a woman (informal)
Here’s your change, love.

9. christianity God’s love for humanity: the mercy, grace, and charity shown by God to humanity
10. christianity worship of God: the worship and adoration of God
11. sports game score of zero: a score of zero in sports and games, for example, tennis, squash, and whist


v (past loved, past participle loved, present participle lov·ing, 3rd person present singular loves)
1. vti feel tender affection for: to feel tender affection for somebody, for example, a close relative or friend, or for something such as a place, an ideal, or an animal
2. vti feel desire for: to feel romantic and sexual desire and longing for somebody
3. vt like very much: to like something or like doing something very much
I love watching old movies on TV.

4. vt show kindness to: to feel and show kindness and charity to somebody
love one another and love your neighbor

5. vt have sexual intercourse with: to have sexual intercourse with somebody (dated)


[Old English lufian , from lufu “love” (source of the noun). Ultimately from an Indo-European word meaning “to love,” which is also the ancestor of English libido, belief, and leave2 “absence.”]

See Usage note at enamored.
Word Key: Synonyms
love, liking, affection, fondness, passion, infatuation, crush,
CORE MEANING: a strong positive feeling toward somebody or something
love used to describe a very strong, positive feeling toward somebody or something. It is used especially to talk about strong romantic or sexual feelings between people; liking used to talk about positive feelings toward somebody or something. These feelings are not as strong as those suggested by love; affection used to describe warm friendly caring feelings between people. It can also be used to talk about a liking for something such as a place; fondness used in a similar way to affection to talk about feelings between people. It can also be used to describe a strong liking or preference for something; passion used to describe an exceptionally intense love for somebody, usually of a strong sexual nature. It can also be used to refer to a strong liking or enthusiasm for something, sometimes of an excessive nature; infatuation used to describe an intense but short-lived and often unrealistic love for somebody, usually of a romantic or sexual nature; crush used to describe somebody’s strong feeling of attraction toward a person with whom he or she is not having a relationship. It is used especially to talk about teenagers and young people

Answer 2

If I remember right, the Bible has a lovely definition of what love is. I think its 1 Corinthians verse 4 to 13. it goes something like. love is kind, love is patient, love does not rejoice in the despair ofhers... hope you find it.

Answer 3

Love is a decision; a choice.
It is the seeking of the best outcome for another person and sacrificing your own interest toward that goal.

Answer 4

love is a passion and very soft and sweet feeling . it makes a person beautiful in mind . it builds on only trust on each other.so long it prevails there is nothing beautiful in the world than love .

Answer 5

Love, like that **** they try and sell you on tv? Or love, like what it is without sugar -coating? Love is unconditional affection, for better or for worse. Love=like+a lot of tolerance.

Answer 6

Is no definition if you try to define love you're not never going to finish more than word they re many feelings that cant be explain exactly how it feels.

Answer 7

Love is not about finding out whats perfect about someone.
Its about seeing an imperfect person as perfect.

Answer 8

The only but often forgotten purpose of living. Love is being kept up all night because you cannot think of anything but your hearts desire...Love is one touch leaving you breathless...All you need is LOVE! lucy xxx

When there are no bugs the first time you compile the whole project -- that is love. JAMIE LOVES ERIC

Two lovers sat on a park bench, with their bodies touching each other, holding hands in the moonlight.

There was silence between them. So profound was their love for each other, they needed no words to express it. And so they sat in silence, on a park bench, with their bodies touching, holding hands in the moonlight.

Finally she spoke. "Do you love me, John?" she asked. "You know I love you, darling," he replied. "I love you more than tongue can tell. You are the light of my life, my sun, moon and stars. You are my everything. Without you I have no reason for being."

Again there was silence as the two lovers sat on a park bench, their bodies touching, holding hands in the moonlight. Once more she spoke. "How much do you love me, John?" she asked. He answered: "How much do I love you? Count the stars in the sky. Measure the waters of the oceans with a teaspoon. Number the grains of sand on the sea shore."

"Impossible, you say? Yes, and it is just as impossible for me to say how much I love you. My love for you is higher than the heavens, deeper than Hades, and broader than the earth. It has no limits, no bounds. Everything must have an ending except my love for you."

There was more of silence as the two lovers sat on a park bench with their bodies touching, holding hands in the moonlight.

Once more her voice was heard. "Kiss me, John," she implored. And leaning over, he pressed his lips warmly to hers in fervent osculation. -- Samuel M. Johnson, 1976.

Interdependence of process.

Taking pleasure from the happiness of another.

The inability to be content without the contentment of another.

There are more kinds of love than there are people. Unfortunately, though, there are fewer kinds of love than the number of people, squared.

Love is never having to say you're sorry.

Love is having to say you're sorry every five minutes. -- JohnLennon

This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. -- http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?passage=1JOHN+3:16

True love is eternal and unconditional, not something you can turn on and off as you so desire.

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." -- RobertHeinlein

TheBeatles

Love is all you need. Amen

And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

I count it some evidence of love that passion can neither convince me it is love, nor stop me wishing it were -- WystanHughAuden? (ill-remembered quote)

as yes is to if, love is to yes -- EdwardEstlinCummings

Love is when you catch your breath at the sight of your girlfriend's little pink case that her pills come in. -- PhlIp

Love is a spiffy way to cause the parents to remain together long enough to raise a child. Or so one hopes.

"I love you, but I hate you." -- MisterSpock. "But we are exactly the same." --RobotChicks "That is why I love you, but I hate you." -- MisterSpock

Love is the April sun on the blossoming rose. -- Anonymous

Love is a hot *** in a tight pair of jeans. -- Anonymous

"LOVE is the sensational feeing for one" --Anonymous "LOVE is the girl that sits across from you at spanish"--Anonymous "LOVE is when your with your love one an then meet your soulmate then give her the finger"--Anonymous

Answer 9

A strong feeling of affection for either someone you that you are sexually attracted to or someone who have strong bonds with you(family member perhaps).

Answer 10

Love, is what you make it. love takes work, and dedication.

Answer 11

Easy

Love is patient, Kind, generous, keeps no records of wrongs, doesn't hate, It is totally giving and forgiving, It makes you feel alive and living.