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Affection Emotion Attraction Attachment Virtue Kindness Compassion

The document discusses the different types and meanings of the word "love". It can refer to strong attraction, affection for friends or family, pleasure, or compassion. Four main forms of love have traditionally been distinguished: kinship love, friendship love, romantic/sexual love, and divine love. Modern authors have identified additional varieties of romantic love. While love plays a major role in relationships, it is difficult to consistently define due to its complexity and the diversity of meanings. Love acts to bring people together and facilitate the continuation of the human species.

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Affection Emotion Attraction Attachment Virtue Kindness Compassion

The document discusses the different types and meanings of the word "love". It can refer to strong attraction, affection for friends or family, pleasure, or compassion. Four main forms of love have traditionally been distinguished: kinship love, friendship love, romantic/sexual love, and divine love. Modern authors have identified additional varieties of romantic love. While love plays a major role in relationships, it is difficult to consistently define due to its complexity and the diversity of meanings. Love acts to bring people together and facilitate the continuation of the human species.

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he English word "love" can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes that ranges from interpersonal

affection ("I love my mother") to pleasure ("I loved that meal"). It can refer to an emotion of a [1] strong attraction and personal attachment. It can also be a virtue representing humankindness, compassion, and affection"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of [2] another". As well, it may describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, one's [3] self or animals. Four forms of interpersonal love have traditionally been distinguished based on ancient Greek precedent: the love of kinship or familiarity (in Greek,storge), the love of friendship (philia), the love of sexual [4][5] and/or romantic desire (eros), and self-emptying or divine love (agape). Modern authors have [6] distinguished further varieties of romantic love. Non-Western traditions have also distinguished variants or [7] symbioses of these states. This diversity of uses and meanings combined with the complexity of the feelings involved makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, compared to other emotional states. Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central [8] psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts. Love may be understood as a function to keep human beings together against menaces and to facilitate the [9] continuation of the species.

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