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love life

love life

74 3.4
A person's romantic relationships and sexual activity
  • noun
  • NSFW
: vida amorosa
  • My grandmother, she was married to this man, and I always thought she had a very simple, uncomplicated love life.

How is your love life going NET?

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Examples

  • She'd gotten into the habit of complaining to him about her nonexistent love life.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • As Sam Smith's career continues to go from strength to strength, his love life provides the inspiration for his music.

  • The best years of your love life happen after your kids leave.

  • Own your own incredible love life and watch it come to you.

  • So she brought up the love life and she said, are you seeing anybody?

  • Maybe I'll catch you up on my love life.

  • How's your love life these days?

  • Your love life's a mess, buddy boy.

  • And what is wrong with adding excitement to your love life with your spouse?

    Blog text (13)
  • She often shares stories about her love life with her close friends.

Synonyms

lovemaking
vslove life
  • NSFW
31 6.0

Sex between two adults who care for each other

refers to ongoing romantic and sexual relationships rather than a single act
making love
vslove life
  • NSFW
25 4.4

Sex between people to show love or affection

refers to ongoing romantic and sexual relationships rather than the single act

Antonyms

766 1.0

Not married and not in a romantic relationship

40 6.8

Not having sex often for religious or personal reasons

How Active

love life
  • NSFW
74 3.4
datelessness
1 8.0

Surface Forms

love life singular
love lives plural

Morphology

love + life

The meaning is directly compositional: 'love' modifies 'life' to indicate the part of someone's life concerned with romantic/sexual relationships. This noun+noun pattern is common cross-linguistically (e.g., Spanish vida amorosa) and follows a straightforward semantic logic that a B1 learner knowing both words can infer.

Etymology

Love life calls your romantic and sexual relationships a separate life — imagine your love as its own small life next to work or family. That's why it means 'a person's romantic and sexual relationships'.