love
- noun
- /lʌv/
- NSFW
- But there is no limit to the love that I have for you.
- fall in love
- romantic love
- a love affair
Touchy, huggy, sensual, sexual love bombing that may really hook you.
- Touchy, huggy, sensual, sexual love bombing that may really hook you.
Examples
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I have never felt such deep love for anyone as I do for her.
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Do you think you'd like to be in love with him?
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And for the record, I think I'm in love with you, too.
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You fell in love with the neighborhood policeman?
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She's not in love with him.
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She said that she was in love with another man, that she was in love with Michael.
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Susie and I are in love.
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Wouldn't it be fabulous if we somehow stayed in love for the rest of our lives?
Fiction book (1990) -
Ideas of romantic love suffuse our lives and guide our emotional experiences and behaviors.
Academic text (2013) -
His love for music inspired him to create beautiful songs.
Synonyms
A very strong sexual desire or attraction to someone
A very strong desire for something, often for things people see as forbidden
A strong wish to have sex with another person
A feeling of wanting to have sex with someone
Strong romantic and physical attraction between two people that often includes intimate contact
A strong desire to have sex with someone
A strong feeling of sexual desire and attraction for another person
A strong desire for physical and romantic closeness
A strong feeling of love or desire for someone
A strong desire to have sex
Antonyms
Idioms
Words people say when they are very annoyed or want something done quickly
- Informal
To give someone so much care and affection that they feel overwhelmed
Compounds
- Literature
A drink people believe makes someone want to be with the person who gives it to them
- NSFW
Sex between people who are not married, often part of a belief in sexual freedom
- Jargon
A line on the palm that people say shows a person's emotions or romantic life
- Literature
Strong happy feelings for someone and the sadness that comes when they leave
- Offensive
A slang name for an upper arm or chest muscle men show off, sometimes meaning a man's penis
- Literature
A medieval style of romance where a knight secretly praised a lady he could not marry
A common European wildflower with purple, yellow and white flowers that garden pansies come from
- NSFW
Strong romantic and physical attraction between two people that often includes intimate contact
- South African
A grass from South Africa that grows in clumps and is often planted to stop soil erosion
- UK
A small tree with bright purplish-red flowers that grow on its stems before leaves appear
- UK
A vine without leaves that wraps around and harms plants like clover, with small white bell-shaped flowers on orange-yellow stems
A tropical climbing flower with fine leaf parts and a strong smell when crushed
A tall plant from warm countries with long hanging red flowers whose leaves are eaten and seeds used like grain
A grass that lives for many years from South Africa and grows in dense clumps to stop soil erosion
How Sexual
Surface Forms
Etymology
Love kept the idea of 'desire' from its old root lufu, so a helpful way to remember sexual love is to think of it as a deep attraction or strong longing for another person.