Love vs. Sympathy

Lovenoun

(uncountable) Strong affection.

Lovenoun

A profound and caring affection towards someone.

Lovenoun

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

Lovenoun

A feeling of intense attraction towards someone.

Lovenoun

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

Lovenoun

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

Lovenoun

A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.

Lovenoun

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

Lovenoun

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

Lovenoun

(euphemistic) Sexual activity.

Lovenoun

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

Lovenoun

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

Lovenoun

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Lovenoun

(obsolete) A thin silk material.

Lovenoun

A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba''.

Lovenoun

(racquet sports) Zero, no score.

Loveverb

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

Loveverb

(transitive) To need, thrive on.

Loveverb

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

Loveverb

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

Loveverb

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

Loveverb

(transitive) To lust for.

Loveverb

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

Loveverb

To praise; commend.

Loveverb

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

Lovenoun

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.

Lovenoun

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

Lovenoun

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

Lovenoun

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

Lovenoun

Due gratitude and reverence to God.

Lovenoun

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

Lovenoun

Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus.

Lovenoun

A thin silk stuff.

Lovenoun

A climbing species of Clematis (Clematis Vitalba).

Lovenoun

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

Lovenoun

Sexual intercourse; - a euphemism.

Loveverb

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.

Loveverb

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

Loveverb

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.

Loveverb

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

Lovenoun

a strong positive emotion of regard and affection;

Lovenoun

any object of warm affection or devotion;

Lovenoun

a beloved person; used as terms of endearment

Lovenoun

a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction;

Lovenoun

a score of zero in tennis or squash;

Lovenoun

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

Loveverb

have a great affection or liking for;

Loveverb

get pleasure from;

Loveverb

be enamored or in love with;

Loveverb

have sexual intercourse with;

Love

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.

Sympathynoun

A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion.

Sympathynoun

The ability to share the feelings of another.

Sympathynoun

A mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.

Sympathynoun

Tendency towards or approval of the aims of a movement.

Sympathynoun

Feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if not in degree; fellow-feeling.

Sympathynoun

An agreement of affections or inclinations, or a conformity of natural temperament, which causes persons to be pleased, or in accord, with one another; as, there is perfect sympathy between them.

Sympathynoun

Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity; commiseration; compassion.

Sympathynoun

The reciprocal influence exercised by organs or parts on one another, as shown in the effects of a diseased condition of one part on another part or organ, as in the vomiting produced by a tumor of the brain.

Sympathynoun

A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron.

Sympathynoun

Similarity of function, use office, or the like.

Sympathynoun

an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion;

Sympathynoun

sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)

Sympathynoun

a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other;

Sympathy

Sympathy is the perception, understanding, and reaction to the distress or need of another life form. According to David Hume, this sympathetic concern is driven by a switch in viewpoint from a personal perspective to the perspective of another group or individual who is in need.