Another word for being in love

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1. What is another word for being in love?
2. What is a word for falling in love easily?
3. What words describe falling in love?

What is another word for being in love?

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What is a word for falling in love easily?

emophilia
Some people tend to fall in love fast, easily, and often. This tendency is known as emophilia, formerly known as “emotional promiscuity.” It is measured with items such as: «I fall in love easily.” «I feel romantic connections right away.”

What words describe falling in love?

In love with someone — thesaurus

• devoted. adjective. loving someone very much.
• infatuated. adjective. in love with someone so much that it seems silly, especially because you do not know them very well.
• besotted. adjective. …
• enamoured. adjective. …
• doting. adjective. …
• lovesick. adjective. …
• mad about someone. phrase. …
• head over heels. phrase.

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What is another word for “love”? Learn “love” synonyms in English. The list below provides some fantastic words you can use instead of “love” with example sentences.

Love Synonym

Love Definition and Examples

Meaning of Love: An intense feeling of closeness, caring, and affection. It is commonly a feeling that exists between all forms of social and familial relationships. It is also a bond that exists between living beings that induces a chemical reaction in the brain.

Examples:

• “It is most likely that the strongest love that exists is between mother and child.”
• “When two people are in love, it is usually obvious to all those around them.”
• “Who marrieth for love without money, hath good nights and sorry days.”

Other Words for “Love”

Common synonyms for “love”. 

• Admire
• Adore
• Appreciate
• Cherish
• Enjoy
• Fancy
• Dote on
• Honour
• Respect
• Savor/ Savour
• Like

Huge list of 95+ different words to use instead of “love”.

• Admire
• Adore
• Adulate
• Appreciate
• Baby
• Bang
• Bask
• Be crazy about
• Be fond of
• Be in love
• Be in love with
• Be intimate
• Be nuts about
• Be partial to
• Be wild about
• Bonk
• Canonize
• Care
• Care for
• Caress
• Charm
• Cherish
• Concern
• Courting
• Crush
• Cuddle
• Dating
• Deify
• Delight
• Delight in
• Desire
• Dig
• Do it
• Dote
• Dote on
• Dote upon
• Embrace
• Enjoy
• Esteem
• Exalt
• Fancy
• Feel
• Fond
• Fondle
• Girlf
• Hate
• Hold
• Hold dear
• Honor
• Hump
• Idolize
• Indulge
• Indulge in
• Interest
• Intrigue
• Jazz
• Keep
• Kiss
• Know
• Lave
• Lie with
• Like
• Liked
• Liking
• Loved one
• Luxuriate
• Luxuriate in
• Maintain
• Neck
• Need
• Praise
• Prefer
• Previous
• Prize
• Regard
• Relish
• Respect
• Revel
• Revel in
• Revere
• Reverence
• Savor
• Savour
• Screw
• Sex
• Shine
• Shut
• Stop
• Take
• Taste
• Treasure
• Value
• Venerate
• Want
• Welcome
• Wish
• Worship

“Love” Synonyms with Examples

Admire

• For example: I really admire your enthusiasm.

Adore

• For example: It’s obvious that she adores him.

Appreciate

• For example: Her family doesn’t appreciate her.

Cherish

• For example: Children need to be cherished.

Enjoy

• For example: I enjoy playing tennis and squash.

Fancy

• For example: Do you fancy going out this evening?

Dote on

• For example: He dotes on his children.

Honour

• For example: One must show honour to one’s parents.

Respect

• For example: I respect you more than anyone.

Savor/ Savour

• For example: I wanted to savour every moment.

Like

• For example: She’s nice. I like her.

More interesting examples with the word “love”

• “There is no paradise on earth equal to the union of love and innocence.”
• “Love as in time to come you should hate, and hate as you should in time to come, love.”
• “Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace.”
• “Love is like the moon; when it does not increase it decreases.”
• “Love rules his kingdom without a sword”

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Love, as the song says, is a many splendored thing. So, when we find it, we’re keen to enjoy the spoils. But what is it about humans that makes us long for love in the first place? It turns out the most inherent reason is also probably the least romantic.

«Generally speaking, human ‘pair bonding’ is a drive to keep the species in existence,» Dr. Nicki Nance, licensed psychotherapist and professor at Beacon College in Leesburg, Florida, said in an email interview when we originally spoke to her in 2018. Over time, the tendency to find a love connection evolved from relationships built on need to those of enjoyment.

«Today, falling in love is socially defined. If we didn’t have love stories to establish the expectation of falling in love, we might not do it. We would still bond, though,» she said, noting that contemporary love is more successful when key components like passion, companionship and commitment are present.

How We Develop Love

The beginning stages of love, as well as how we pursue and give it throughout our lives, depends a lot on our parents. That’s according to psychologist Dr. Beverly Palmer, author of «Love Demystified: Strategies for a Successful Love Life.» «We are born as helpless infants, dependent on our parent to fulfill our needs. Love, then, becomes need fulfillment and we seek this same love out as adults,» she said in a 2018 email interview.

Palmer explained that attachment theory plays a big part in the development of love for our parents, because when children are protected and nurtured by available, responsive parents, they have their need for emotional nurturing satisfied. Therefore, they learn to love the parents in return.

What children learn about love from their parents determines how they will love others as adults, she said. «If your parents fulfilled your need to be emotionally nurtured by giving you love, you then developed into an adult who has love to give. But if your emotional needs were not nurtured, you did not fully develop and instead became a demanding and anxious adult still seeking the love you missed as a child.»

That’s not to say that people from neglectful or non-loving homes aren’t capable of love themselves, but they might need to do some extra work to resolve their issues and get there.

The Brain and Body on Love

Remember the pair bonding Nance mentioned? Well, it happens for a reason. «Our brain is set up to support pair bonding. When people fall in love, they go into a state of limerence,» she said, which is a fancy way of saying infatuation or obsession. This happens because our brains and hormones go wild when faced with a sincere love interest.

«When we are in the company of the loved one the brain produces more serotonin, which gives a sense of well-being, more endorphins, which are natural pain killers, and more dopamine, which increases pleasure. The good feeling is a reward that makes us want more,» Nance explained.

Although serotonin levels vary per person, they can also go down during the head-over-heels process. As a result, decreased serotonin may produce OCD-like symptoms that cause some people to think of the person they are in love with constantly, said Dr. Joe Bates, psychiatrist and author of «Making Your Brain Hum: 112 Weeks to a Smarter You» in 2018. The hormonal reactions aren’t limited to romantic love, however. «Viewing pictures of beauty, nature, a loved one, [or even] your beloved pet, can cause us to feel relaxed or produce loving emotions, releasing oxytocin in the bloodstream,» he explained, noting that oxytocin is regarded as the «love hormone.»

Why Some People Find Love More Easily

Occasionally, eyes meet across the room and the rest is history. For most of us, however, falling in love is more complicated. Sometimes, the person who wants to be loved is unconsciously getting in their own way.

«In order to find love, we must first be able to give love, and we must have this love to give within ourselves. When you feel lovable you project that out and other people notice,» Palmer said. «In searching for a lover, the person who doesn’t feel worthy of love can’t present themselves as lovable.» This lack of confidence translates into neediness, which repels potential love-interests like bug spray. «The more the lonely person seeks love, the more it eludes them. The needier they appear, the less chance there is for someone to enter their life to fulfill those needs,» she added, noting that it’s critical to «love yourself without being dependent on other people’s opinions.»

Once you’re ready to love yourself and are open to outside love, the rest is timing, chemistry and common ground. Although the old saying «opposites attract» remains prevalent, it’s actually false in most cases. «The goal is to find someone who shares your same values, wants the same things for the relationship that you do, naturally agrees with you on how to obtain those things, and last but not least, has a mutual depth of love and desire for one another,» relationship expert Kevin Darné said via email in 2018.

At the end of the day, love is relative, so don’t expect your relationship to look, feel or act the same as past experiences or like those of your friends. «Ultimately, we’re looking for someone to love us the way we want to be loved,» Darné said. «If we don’t feel loved, it doesn’t matter what is in our mate’s heart.»

Originally Published: Feb 8, 2018

English language shed most of its prefixes, affixes, conjugations, declensions and stuff a long time ago and has to get by using word combinations and phrasal verbs. It seems to use «fall» to mark the incompleteness of volition. I believe other languages use other means to the same end.

Compare with Russian: «влюбиться» and «полюбить», that is vljubit’sja (to fall in love) and poljubit’ (to come to love smn/smnth). Same root, but different prefixes and suffixes — used with a purpose.

In the first case, the language resorts to the prefix «v» (into, inside); next comes the root «ljub» (compare with German «liebe»), ending with suffixes and an ending, dissecting which is a headache. Of note is the reflexive particle «sja» (to myself; kith and kin of the English «self», same letter «s»). Adding this originally meant «doing to oneself the action that the verb is conveying», but depending on the presence of other elements came to mean a lot of things, like «to a full extent» (the whole of myself). This v + sja (the thrust and completeness-to-oneself) combination provides the emphatic and involuntary feel similar to «fall in love», to such a degree that a bevy of makeshift analogies were penned, like Vtreskat’SJA, Vturit’SJA, Vtjuhat’SJA, with over verbs, mostly nonce-words, spatchcocked between v and sja, with the same overall result – “to fall in love”.

«Poljubit'» (to come to love someone or something), on the other hand, uses the prefix «po»: here it means «to initiate something». One may initiate something voluntarily or otherwise, but without «sja» it just falls short of conveying the «fall in love» sentiment. So, when one seeks to explain to a third person why he «came to love» that girl, citing her virtues, he will oftener opt for «pojubit'», and when one wants to say something like «Don’t know why, but I just fell in love with her”, he will tend to use “vljubit’sja”.

Moreover, when one is using “vljubit’sja”, one has to use the preposition “v” (towards, in the direction, inside). Just like with “falling in love”. Only you place it before the person with whom you fell in love with: “Ja vljubil’sja v Annu” (I fell in love towards, inside Anna). Compare: “Ja vrezalsja v stenu” (I drove into a wall). Same v+sja, same v, same fatalistic feel, hopefully not the same final result, though.

To top it all, one may say “Vlubit’sja po ushi”, that is “To fall in love up to one’s ears”. The same falling-drowning-involuntary feel, because one also may be po ushi .. in debt, say.