Love

Love is a special affection for someone or something, a feeling or emotion. Some describe it as a chemical reaction in the human brain. Various different types of love exist, which are more or less related:

1. love between family members: parent's love of children, etc.
2. love of friends
3. romantic love
4. sexual love
5. loving one another in general
6. loving something abstract or inanimate

Some languages, such as ancient Greek, are better than English at distinguishing between the different senses in which the word love is used. For example, ancient Greek has the words "philia," "eros", "agape", "storge" referring to love between friends, romantic/sexual love, sacrificial (unreciprocated) love, and affection/familial love respectively. However, with Greek as with many other languages, it has been historically difficult to separate the meanings of these words totally, and so we can find examples of, for example, agape being used with much the same meaning as eros.

The Unification Church defines love in philosophical terms as "the emotional force given by the Subject to the Object". The church classifies love into three types:

1. parental love
2. conjugal love
3. children's love

See also: Limerence

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Much ado about nothing

- William Shakespeare

Love: A term that has no meaning if defined.

- John Ralston Saul, The Doubter's Companion

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Love was the name of a Los Angeles-based rock and roll band of the late 1960s. See Love (band).