Love vs. Attachment

(uncountable) Strong affection.

A profound and caring affection towards someone.

Example: ‘A mother’s love is not easily shaken.’; ‘My husband’s love is the most important thing in my life.’;

Affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well-being.

A feeling of intense attraction towards someone.

Example: ‘I have never been in love as much as I have with you.’;

A deep or abiding liking for something; an enthusiasm for something.

Example: ‘My love of cricket knows no bounds.’;

(countable) A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.

A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.

Example: ‘Hello love, how can I help you?’;

A thing, activity, etc which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.

(euphemistic) Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.

(euphemistic) Sexual activity.

An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.

Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young.

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(obsolete) A thin silk material.

A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba''.

(racquet sports) Zero, no score.

Example: ‘So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.’;

To have a strong affection for (someone or something).

Example: ‘I love my spouse.’; ‘I love you!’;

(transitive) To need, thrive on.

Example: ‘Mold loves moist, dark places.’;

To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.

Example: ‘I love walking barefoot on wet grass;’; ‘I'd love to join the team;’; ‘I love what you've done with your hair’;

To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).

(transitive) To derive delight from a fact or situation.

Example: ‘I love the fact that the coffee shop now offers fat-free chai latte.’;

(transitive) To lust for.

To have sex with, (perhaps from make love.)

Example: ‘I wish I could love her all night long.’;

To praise; commend.

To praise as of value; prize; set a price on.

A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preëminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters.

Example: ‘Of all the dearest bonds we proveThou countest sons' and mothers' loveMost sacred, most Thine own.’;

Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex.

Example: ‘He on his sideLeaning half-raised, with looks of cordial loveHung over her enamored.’;

Courtship; - chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage.

Example: ‘Demetrius . . . Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena,And won her soul.’;

Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or desire; fondness; good will; - opposed to hate; often with of and an object.

Example: ‘Love, and health to all.’; ‘Smit with the love of sacred song.’; ‘The love of science faintly warmed his breast.’;

Due gratitude and reverence to God.

Example: ‘Keep yourselves in the love of God.’;

The object of affection; - often employed in endearing address; as, he held his love in his arms; his greatest love was reading.

Example: ‘Open the temple gates unto my love.’;

Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus.

Example: ‘Such was his form as painters, when they showTheir utmost art, on naked Lores bestow.’; ‘Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love.’;

A thin silk stuff.

A climbing species of Clematis (Clematis Vitalba).

Nothing; no points scored on one side; - used in counting score at tennis, etc.

Example: ‘He won the match by three sets to love.’;

Sexual intercourse; - a euphemism.

Example: ‘A little western flower,Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound;And maidens call it love-in-idleness.’;

To have a feeling of love for; to regard with affection or good will; as, to love one's children and friends; to love one's country; to love one's God.

Example: ‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.’; ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy self.’;

To regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that of one sex for the other.

To take delight or pleasure in; to have a strong liking or desire for, or interest in; to be pleased with; to like; as, to love books; to love adventures.

Example: ‘Wit, eloquence, and poetry.Arts which I loved.’;

To have the feeling of love; to be in love.

a strong positive emotion of regard and affection;

Example: ‘his love for his work’; ‘children need a lot of love’;

any object of warm affection or devotion;

Example: ‘the theater was her first love’; ‘he has a passion for cock fighting’;

a beloved person; used as terms of endearment

a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction;

Example: ‘their love left them indifferent to their surroundings’; ‘she was his first love’;

a score of zero in tennis or squash;

Example: ‘it was 40 love’;

sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people;

Example: ‘his lovemaking disgusted her’; ‘he hadn't had any love in months’; ‘he has a very complicated love life’;

have a great affection or liking for;

Example: ‘I love French food’; ‘She loves her boss and works hard for him’;

get pleasure from;

Example: ‘I love cooking’;

be enamored or in love with;

Example: ‘She loves her husband deeply’;

have sexual intercourse with;

Example: ‘This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm’; ‘Adam knew Eve’; ‘Were you ever intimate with this man?’;

Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which differs from the love of food.

The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching.

A strong bonding with or fondness for someone or something.

Example: ‘I have such an attachment towards my fiancé!’;

A dependence, especially a strong one.

A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool.

The means by which something is physically attached.

(computing) A file sent along with an email.

(legal) Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.

Example: ‘attachment of earnings’;

(meteorology) The act or process by which any (downward) leader connects to any available (upward) streamer in a lightning flash.

The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; an passion of affection that binds a person; as, an attachment to a friend, or to a party.

That by which one thing is attached to another; connection; as, to cut the attachments of a muscle.

Example: ‘The human mind . . . has exhausted its forces in the endeavor to rend the supernatural from its attachment to this history.’;

Something attached; some adjunct attached to an instrument, machine, or other object; as, a sewing machine attachment (i. e., a device attached to a sewing machine to enable it to do special work, as tucking, etc.).

A seizure or taking into custody by virtue of a legal process.

a feeling of affection for a person or an institution

a supplementary part or accessory

a writ authorizing the seizure of property that may be needed for the payment of a judgment in a judicial proceeding

a connection that fastens things together

faithful support for a religion or cause or political party

the act of attaching or affixing something

the act of fastening things together