love

n

1. affection, fondness, warmth; cherishing, adoration, devotion; like, liking, adulation, esteem, regard; attachment, attraction, mutual attraction, friendship, Platonic love; closeness, intimacy.

2. passion, tender passion, amativeness, true love, free love; infatuation, fancy, puppy love, calf love, Sl. crush, Sl. case; lust, aphrodisia, desire, libidinousness, Sl. hot pants, Sl. hots; hankering, longing, wanting, pining, craving, yearning; emotion, heart, heat, ardor, fervor, flame, rapture.

3. sweetheart, sweet, sweetie, Sl. sweet patootie, Fr. petit chou, Fr. chou-chou, Fr. poulet; honey, darling, beloved, dear, dear one, dearest; heartthrob, heart's desire, true love, love of one's life, one's all; lover, paramour, Fr. intime. sex partner, bed mate; admirer, boyfriend, girlfriend; young man, suitor, beau, swain, inamorato, wooer; betrothed, intended, fiance, fiancée; mistress, courtesan, best girl, ladylove, inamorata; mate, spouse, helpmate, better half, husband, wife, old man, old lady, bride; turtledove, angel.

4. amour, affair, meaningful relation, relationship, liaison, intrigue, romance; assignation, tryst, rendezvous.

5. concern, sympathy, caring, care, solicitude; tenderness, feeling, good feeling; rapport, affinity, amity, concord, accord, harmony, brotherhood, friendliness.

6.Eros, Cupid, Amor; Venus, Aphrodite; Teutonic Myth.Freya, Hindu Myth.Kama; amorino, amoretto.

7. predilection, partiality, disposition, inclination, bent, penchant, proclivity; weakness, relish, taste, delight, soft spot in one's heart; mania, Sl. thing.

8. beneficence, charity, Latin. caritas, Christian charity, agape, brotherly love; benevolence, kindliness, kindness, goodness, grace, grace of God; veneration, idolizing, reverence.

v

9. like, have a liking, care for, care a lot for, be fond of, hold dear, cherish; treasure, admire, esteem, prize, think the world of, be attracted to.

10. be in love with, be smitten, love to distraction, lose one's heart to; adore, adulate, worship, idolize; desire, want, yearn for, pine for, long for, pant for, burn; lust for, Sl. letch after, Sl. have the hots; have a crush on, be infatuated.

11. delight in, appreciate, relish, savor, enjoy, Sl. eat up; get a bang or kick out of, approve, applaud.

12. need, require, have to have, benefit from, dote on, find good, find helpful.

13. embrace, hug, cuddle, Sl. smooch, neck, pet, Sl. make out, Inf. romance, fondle, Inf. canoodle, caress, have foreplay; make love, have sex, have intercourse, go to bed, lie with, bed down; have a romp in the hay.