is LOVE an EMOTION, an EXPRESSION, an IMPRESSION, an AFFIRMATION, a HALLUCINATION, or a FRABRICATION?

Question

is love as a feeling COMPLETE? or love is love till you give it away(expression)? or how you perceive it(impression)? or when it's accepted or given back(affirmation), a figment of imagination(hallucination) or the greatest human invention next to God(fabrication).....
what is love using one word to describe it(as one of the choices above) ?

Answer 1

Love is an "action verb"; it's what you give to another, what you do for another.

In one word: Giving (expression).

Edit:
And, as Psychic Cat points out so very wisely in his comment on my answer, it is a noun as well, of course, or I'd not be able to use its pronoun in my definition.

Let's say, in my context, that the noun, love is what the recipient experiences from the verb, love (from having been given, having received the "action").

It's fecund, either way, and that's its ineffability and the beauty of pondering the question!
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Answer 2

I'd prefer to think of it as affirmation--love accepted AND given back. It's expressive. (At least, it should be!) It could be an impression, but that wouldn't really be love, would it?No to the last two. No no no.
I peeked at the answers, & I shouldn't really, because when I see something that isn't "quite" true, or is perplexing, I can't seem to help making a comment. I beg to differ that love is an "action verb." Love is also, (first definition) a noun; a verb depending on how it's used in a sentence. Love is not "just" an emotion; it's many things. I don't understand Randy D. You are asking about the definition of love, not a decision, or intention. To add "choice" would be more appropriate to asking: Is love a choice? A wish? A hope? A goal? A motive? That would shift the question completely away from what you asked, (I say most respectfully). Defining "love" is totally subjective. I'll stay with my choice, as it represents mutuality to me. In my youth, I thought infatuation was love, but that is as short in life as it is long in intensity. I hope I'm making some sense to you...

Answer 3

When love is a fabrication, impression and a hallucination, it's called INFATUATION. That'a not real, and it's temporary. Most teens and young people go through this. When love is an expression, affirmation, and makes you feel complete, then that's the real thing. It only comes once in your lifetime. Most people when they first meet someone, they're infatuated, everything is nice and mellow, but after a while, all of that fades, and you're left with what's real, then that is love.

Answer 4

love is not just one thing, it can vary, at different times in your life, with different people, and there are different types of love, i think each of us is able to have it be all of those things that you mention, often within one relationship, or towards one thing we love
if anything, it is really more of an impression, a perception, sometimes based on realistic loving things, and sometimes not,
for example, our feelings, expectations , affirmations, fabracations, sometimes hallucinations, etc in loving our child, are totally different then our mate
some say they love their country, but what does that even mean? that we like it better then we would another? that we care deeply while seeing need for improvement
its really hard to define, if i had to choose one word to define love, it would be caring , if i had to choose one of the choices listed, i would choose affirmation, as giving love defines us as a person capable of loving and being loved

Answer 5

I'm curious as to why you chose those variables, and only those variables. As a mental health professional with 20+ years experience, now retired, and having to face that word (love) numerous times in that span, and as a man of 55 years who has used that word numerous times in a variety of settings, and struggled to understand the "definition" of love as it was used in a multiple of settings, I'm curious as to why you chose those variables (emotion, expression, impression, affirmation, halucination, or fabrication), and no other ones. I've heard the word love defined as a choice as well, by very reputable psychiatrist, and wonder your thoughts on that. Please expand so I can better answer your question. God Bless you.

Answer 6

Yes, Enki, Love at itself must be complete, or otherwise, it can't be love at all. It runs deeper than emotion...Relates more than expression...It doesn't show just to impress or get perceived...Doesn't demand to be affirmed or returned...It is madness, and not love, to hallucinate...And it's NOT just fabrication, for LOVE is REAL.

Answer 7

EMOTION

Love makes you have all these feelings inside. They are difficult to describe at best.
You can feel anger, frustration, anxiety, pure joy. All emotions.
Love is an emotion, sometimes very hard to describe.
Like take for instance.
The 1st time you lay your eyes on someone you feel really attracted to. You have these emotions of joy, excitement, then you are afraid, what if they don't feel the same way.
All emotions.

Answer 8

If we have to use one of your chosen words, I would call it an affirmation. It is the emotional payment to another of a debt incurred by the pleasure we derive from the other person's being, based on what we perceive to be their virtues. To call it simply an emotion wouldn't acknowledge any of the conditions for its existence.

Answer 9

Love is an EMOTION...
since the others all revolve around another living entity... the description for emotion covers love of a person, place or thing

Answer 10

In my opinion Love is an action & a choice. The emotion of love is fickle. Without choosing to act in a loving way no one would ever know unconditional love.


Love is an active choice! Pandora