Loveis any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection. The word lovecan refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure ("I loved that meal") to intense interpersonal attraction ("I love my girlfriend"). This diversity of meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states.
As an abstract concept,loveusually refers to a deep, ineffable feeling of tenderly caring for another person. Even this limited conception of love, however, encompasses a wealth of different feelings, from the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love to the nonsexual emotional closeness of familial and platonic love to the profound onenessor devotion of religious love. Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator ofinterpersonal relationshipand, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative art.
