Love

Love is an emotion involving strong attraction, affection, emotional attachment or concern for a person, animal, or thing. It is expressed in many forms, encompassing a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue, good habit, deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which, in turn, differs from the love of food.

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thumb|Romeo and Juliet, by [[Frank Dicksee, considered to be the archetypal romantic couple, depicting the play's iconic balcony scene]]

advanced emotion, subjective experience of total involvement of the subject, with an object of their awareness

non-romantic love

Polyamory () is the practice or support of, maintaining committed, romantic, and/or sexual relationships with more than one partner, in parallel or concurrently, with the consent of all involved partners. Polyamory allows for ethical-non-monogamy (ENM) which is a subset of the broader consensual non-monogamy. Many people who identify as polyamorous believe in a conscious management of jealousy and reject the view that sexual and relational exclusivity (monogamy) are prerequisites for deep, committed, long-term, loving relationships. When members of a closed polyamorous relationship restrict th

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work by Plato

thumb|right|230px|An illustrated depiction of Mahābhārata character [[Ulupi becoming infatuated with Arjuna]] Infatuation, also known as being smitten, is the personal state of being largely driven by a potentially uninformed or unreasonable passion, usually towards another person for whom one has developed strong romantic or sexual feelings.

symbol representing the heart

social movement that seeks freedom in personal relationships

Erotomania, also known as '''de Clérambault's syndrome''', is an uncommon paranoid condition that is characterized by an individual's delusions of another person being infatuated with them. It is listed in the DSM-5 as a subtype of a delusional disorder. Commonly, the onset of erotomania is sudden, and the course is chronic.

medieval European literary conception of love

metaphor for intense emotional/physical stress or pain one feels at experiencing great and deep longing

day that is marked in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China on March 14, one month after Valentine's Day

thumb|Saudade (1899), by Almeida Júnior

romantic relationship involving three people

A soulmate is a person with whom one feels a deep or natural affinity. This connection is often associated with love, romance, intimacy, sexuality, spirituality, or compatibility, and may also involve trust and comfort.

padlock attached to a public fixture as a symbol of eternal love

love that is not reciprocated by the receiver

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immediate and long-lasting attraction, generally to a person

platonic relationship wherein one person wishes to enter into a romantic or sexual relationship, while the other does not

psychological theory by Robert Sternberg

process of development of a close, interpersonal relationship

Self-love, defined as "love of self" or "regard for one's own happiness or advantage", has been conceptualized both as a basic human necessity and as a moral flaw, akin to vanity and selfishness, synonymous with amour-propre, conceitedness, egotism, narcissism, et al. However, throughout the 20th and 21st centuries self-love has adopted a more positive connotation through pride parades, Self-Respect Movement, self-love protests, the hippie era, the modern feminist movement (3rd & 4th wave), as well as the increase in mental health awareness that promotes self-love as intrinsic to self-help and

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sensual proximity or touching

one of the four ancient Greek terms for types of "love"

fear of being in love and falling in love

branch of philosophy

the attraction between people which leads to friendships and romantic relationships

2003 single by the Black Eyed Peas

Lovesickness is the mental state brought on by the personal experience of unrequited love, or unrequited limerence (also known as infatuated love or being smitten).: "The English language lacked a noun singular for the state of being love smitten, or having fallen in love, until Dorothy Tennov (1979) coined the term, limerence, to fill the void. It is formally defined as follows:

romantic concept of moving from a feeling of neutrality towards a person to one of love

love-themed wall in Montmartre, Paris

sixth Major Arcana tarot card, simbolising freedom, connection, choice and love

type of song dealing with love

East Asian (Japanese) Mythological Belief.

darts that some snails shoot into each other during mating

a branch of magical practice, using magic to influence love and/or sexual relations

Storge ( ; ), or familial love, refers to natural or instinctual affection, such as the love of a parent towards offspring and vice versa.

'''''' (, also Romanized: ) is a Hebrew word that means 'kindness or love between people', specifically of the devotional piety of people towards God as well as of love or mercy of God towards humanity. It is frequently used in Psalms in the latter sense, where it is traditionally translated as "loving kindness" in English translations.

sign meaning "I love you" in various sign languages, particularly ASL; ligature of the fingerspelling signs (manual alphabet) for 'I', 'L', and 'Y'

concept

condition in which one person feels an overwhelming obsessive desire to possess and protect another person toward whom one feels a strong attraction, with an inability to accept failure or rejection

type of potion supposed to secure the love of the person to whom it is administered; now generally found in creative works, but formerly popular in the pre-modern world, and still being compounded to this day in the superstitious East

theory; chemical substances (oxytocin) are studied in the context of their roles in producing human experiences and behaviors that are associated with love

OneLove is an anti-discrimination, anti-racism, LGBT+ rights and human rights campaign, started during the 2020 football season by the Dutch Football Association, that invites football players to wear armbands with the rainbow-coloured OneLove logo. Attracting controversy when worn in nations that have homophobic or anti-LGBT+ laws, it became prominent during the men's 2022 FIFA World Cup.

relationship involving simultaneous or alternating emotions of love and hate

Ishq () is an Arabic word meaning 'love' or 'passion', also widely used in other languages of the Muslim world.

thumb|upright=0.5|Welsh lovespoon with hearts, lock and wheel|alt=Welsh carved wooden lovespoon with hearts, lock and wheel. There are five design elements, three hearts which also form the bowl and the ring of the spoon. Between these are a wheel and a padlock.

an attachment behavior one person has for another

non-romantic intimate partnerships

Being lovestruck means having mental and physical symptoms associated with falling in love: "Love-struck ... means to be hit by love ... you are hit in your heart by the emotion of love".

pathological passion-related behavior involving the feeling of being in love