LJ poll: definition of love

Apr 30, 2003 09:34


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weirdkoreangirl April 30 2003, 02:50:53 UTC
Why out of blue you wanna know the definition of love, Beni ( ... )

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book definition tyarky April 30 2003, 05:35:02 UTC
love
n.

  • A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.

  • A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance.

  • -Sexual passion.
    -Sexual intercourse.
    -A love affair.


  • An intense emotional attachment, as for a pet or treasured object.

  • A person who is the object of deep or intense affection or attraction; beloved. Often used as a term of endearment.
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    eyean April 30 2003, 06:22:15 UTC
    hope this link works... you have to be subscribed to the oxford english dictionary (oed).

    nice definition, without being overly sappy.

    ;)

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    mmarianne May 3 2003, 03:41:15 UTC
    I have been thinking about it a lot.

    My conclusion must be that for me, it differs. Love is not just love. The feelings I have for my son for example, will never be the same ones as the love I can feel for the nature, or the romantic love I can have for a man.

    I think that within the feeling "love" is so many other feelings, and they all come out in different ways - you know...much like baking a cake, or bread..you put different things in there, and the result varies. Like with love.

    Romantic love can sometimes be explodingly powerful, and within the love is probably a huge amounts of feelings that never seem to come along when you're crazily in love with your new pet rabbit.

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    tank_boy May 5 2003, 13:53:37 UTC
    THANK YOU!!!

    OK, I learned: love is like baking bread and not like loving a rabbit. :)

    you are so very right, Marianne.

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    Re: mmarianne May 5 2003, 22:17:45 UTC
    *smiles*

    I must be smart then! Cool!

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    apenmunky May 9 2003, 03:59:35 UTC
    i think the word you are looking for is passion

    it is the potion the result made up of many strong and powerful ingredients including love..
    it is forgiveness, anger, regret, love, lust, hate.. etc.

    all contradicting feelings.. but yet they intertwine so beautifully
    like a musical composition.. rhythmic perfection.. a cycle even..
    full of such gravitational force that sometimes we have no control over.

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    apenmunky May 9 2003, 03:55:24 UTC
    hope you saw my comment... about passion
    i can elaborate more but it wont let me

    good post :)

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    tank_boy May 11 2003, 05:12:31 UTC
    of course I saw it! thank you for posting!

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