filial love
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4.4
- noun
- /ˈfɪliəl lʌv/
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amor filial
- She felt a surge of filial love when she surprised her father with a birthday party.
Examples
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Romantic love, platonic love, filial love?
Fiction book (1996) -
All that the Son has and is, he receives only from the Father, and the Son returns himself without remainder to the Father in a perpetual act of filial love and trust.
Blog text (25) -
The boy showed deep filial love by caring for his sick mother during her recovery.
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Their filial love helped them overcome the challenges they faced as a family.
Synonyms
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1.0
A strong feeling of care and liking for someone or something
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3.3
A strong feeling of liking and caring for someone or something
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2.8
A strong warm liking for a person or thing
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3.6
Warm care and kindness that a person shows to others
A strong, loving loyalty and care for someone or something
Antonyms
How Affectionate
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is compositionally built: 'filial' specifies the family/child-to-parent relation and combines directly with 'love' to mean a child's affection for their parent(s). This relation is morphologically and conceptually transparent (and mirrored in many languages), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will predict the meaning.
Etymology
The phrase filial love uses filial, an old word for a 'son' or 'daughter', and love, so it gives the image of a child caring for a parent. That's why it means 'the affection a child feels toward their parents'.