One word encyclopedia
It's better to look at one object from ten different sides,
than ten items on one side.
A. Diesterweg
There is a lot of beauty in the world, a lot of things to rejoice at and be surprised at. Therefore, I wanted to plunge into the world of colors, tenderness, and luck. Namely, I want to talk about “love”. The Russian language is the language of words: big and small, simple and complex, funny and sad, good and evil. I chose this word because it seemed warm, bright, and I wanted to unravel its secret. To do this, I set a goal
my work: to study the meaning, origin of the word “love” and understand its essence.
I set the following tasks
: to consider the interpretation and etymology of the word “love”; find out the understanding of this word among people of different generations; observe how the word lives in folklore, in the titles of works, songs, films, and in painting.
- Lexical meaning of the word LOVE
1. A feeling of attachment based on common interests, ideals, and a willingness to devote one’s strength to a common cause. Love to motherland. The same feeling, based on mutual disposition, sympathy, intimacy. Brotherly love. Love for people. The same feeling, based on instinct. Mother's love.
2. A feeling based on sexual desire; the relationship of two persons mutually connected by this feeling. Unhappy love. Happy love. Unrequited love. Platonic love. Sensual love. Burn with love. Suffer from love.
3. Transfer. decomposition the person who instills this feeling. She was my first love.
4. Inclination, disposition or attraction to something. Love for art. Love for work.
Dictionary of Nikolai Maksimovich Shansky Love
- a common Slavic word formed with the help of the suffix -ov (-y) from the same stem as to love, any. The noun lyuby (cf. gender p. lyub've) under the influence of indirect cases changed into love, like the nouns sparkle, carrot.
The word
love and its lexical meaning (in Ozhegov’s explanatory dictionary)
Love is feminine.
1.Strong heart feeling. Declaration of love. Declare your love. Marriage for love, without love. Marry for love (to your loved one).
Love to the grave (eternal).
Love has passed, gone, faded away. Suffer, burn, die of love.
Mutual, unrequited, platonic, romantic love.
Love at first sight (which arose immediately from the first meeting). Love is no joke (last).
Love is not a potato (not a trifle, not without a small matter; simple joke).
Child of love (about a desired and beloved child).
Love is evil (about not choosing a loved one).
2. A feeling of deep affection, selfless and sincere affection.
Love for the Motherland, for parents, for children, for neighbor.
Treat your business with love (lovingly).
3. Constant, strong inclination, passion for something. Love for truth, for truth.
Love of ballet, reading, theater, sports. Love. to animals.
4. Predilection, taste for something. Love of alcohol, sweets, dressing, comfort.
May you live happily ever after! (colloquial) - wishes for well-being to those entering into marriage.
(in the etymological dictionary).
From an etymological point of view, the word comes from the Proto-Slavic *ljubъ, from which, among other things, Old Russian and Old Slavic originated. lyub, Russian lyubo, any, any “dear”. Hence the love.
3.
Related words
(Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language: In 4 volumes / Edited by
D. N. Ushakov
)
Lover, oh, oh; (short man. not used;) vna, exno. 1. Imbued with love, caused by love, expressing love. Love affair. Love note. Love lyrics.
To be nice, ay, ay, nesov., with someone (colloquial). Tell someone courtesy, treat someone kindly. L. with women. || To stand on ceremony with someone, to treat someone condescendingly.
Dear, oh, oh; -zen, I know, I know. 1. Considerate towards others, courteous. L. reception. L. answer. Kind meeting. We were greeted very kindly (adv.).
Favorite, mtsa, m. Favorite par excellence, the most beloved person. L. mother. L. public. Universal l...
Admiration, I, pl. no, cf. (bookish, with a tinge of disapproval). Action according to verb. admire. L. nature. Incessant l. yourself…
Loving, oh, oh; - flax, flax, flax (book). Capable of loving a lot, deeply. Loving heart...
The word love and words-relatives (same root) Love, love, beloved, loved, love, amorous (novel), love, any, lover, beloved, amiable, loving, admire, adultery, proud, love, lover, favorite, love.
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Synonyms for LOVE
- affection (feeling of closeness based on deep sympathy, devotion to someone or something)
- affection, sympathy (a good, benevolent attitude, a good feeling felt towards someone)
- romance (love relationship)
- inclination (attraction to something, characterized by consistency; disposition towards someone or something)
- addiction (strong inclination, attraction)
- Mania
- Loyalty
- Friendship
- Love
- Loyalty
- Impotence
- Madness
- Accuracy
- Favor
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Antonyms for the word LOVE
Hate is an intense, long-lasting, negatively colored feeling that reflects rejection, disgust and hostility towards the object of hatred (a person, a group of persons, an inanimate object, a phenomenon).
Indifference is a human state of indifference, lack of interest, and passive attitude towards the environment.
Indifference is a state of complete disinterest in the events happening around, an apathetic and indifferent attitude towards loved ones and close people, insensitivity. An indifferent person does not care what happens around him. He is not interested in the feelings and emotions of other people, current events and their social assessment.
Disgust is a negatively colored feeling, a strong form of rejection
Under the threat of a decisive battle
Frontiers for dear hearts
Give me the steel and courage of a hero,
Love and hate in the chest
invest.
(Vs. Rozhdestvensky, son of Mstislav, Princess Monomakh.)
6. The word Love in phraseological units
Burn with love, twist love, for the love of art, love has cooled down, blind love, crazy love, unrequited love, love at first sight, love to the grave.
Blind love
- excessive love, when they do not notice the shortcomings of a loved one or completely justify them (the image of Prostakova in D. Fonvizin’s comedy “The Minor”)
Love
all ages are submissive.
Love
comes to a person at any age
Expression-quote from “Eugene Onegin” (1823-1831) by A.S. Pushkin.
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The funniest and craziest definitions of the word “love”
- Love is love. That's it, end of story.
- This is when you can freely pass gas around someone.
- This is a fairy tale that never ceases to amaze.
- Love is a game of attrition. This is when two lovers stay together and pester each other until one of them dies.
- This is the union of two souls.
- This is what our dreams are made of.
- This is temporary madness.
- Love is simply a chemical reaction that causes animals to reproduce. It hits you hard in the head and then slowly fades away, leaving you stranded.
- This is when public toilets have two-ply toilet paper. Better yet, a bidet.
- Love is like a web page error - "Error 404" or "not found"!
- This is when you find someone who has the same quirks as you.
- It's buying a super delicious chocolate milkshake after you've been dreaming about it all day, but your significant other accidentally drops hers, so you give her/him yours.
- This is something that cannot be explained in simple words.
- This is the point in a relationship when logic becomes irrelevant.
- It is something that cannot be defined, but can be demonstrated.
- It is a cruel and selective emotion that ensures the survival of the species.
- This is a mental illness that makes you do stupid things.
- This is the downfall of every man/woman.
- A homeless man searches for treasure in the middle of the rain. He finds a bag of gold coins and slowly realizes that they are all made of chocolate. Even though he is heartbroken, he cannot complain because he is hungry in the first place.
- This means giving someone the last piece of food, even if you are very hungry.
- Love is like fire. It is unknown what he will burn. It can burn your heart or your home.
What is love
- Love is when you get out of bed at night for the sake of your loved one to find out where this strange noise comes from.
- Love is bacon. Bacon is love.
- This is a primitive human construct.
- It's a never-ending debate about where to eat.
- Love is a battlefield.
- This is a disease that can be cured by marriage.
- This is when your soul understands that another part of it is in another person and recognizes it.
- Love is like oxygen. If you get too much, you'll get drunk. If you don't have enough, you will die. In addition, it is highly flammable.
- It's like a wonderful warm day - but that's just a myth!
- This is something that people try to explain but don't really understand.
- This is the ability to put up with a person when he is not in the best mood.
- It is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
- This is a mystery that can only be solved the moment you discover it yourself.
- This is your brain, flooded with serotonin.
- It's like flowers waiting to fade.
- It's a chemical reaction in the brain that turns people into idiots.
- It's when you come home after a long day and your shoes and clothes are taken off.
Ideas about love (concepts)
Representatives of a number of religious teachings and currents of ethical thought tried to define their attitude to the problem of love at different times. This kind of idea of love can already be found in Confucius. The views of the Chinese thinker provide a rationale for the principle of ren
, actually equivalent to the concepts of “philanthropy”, “humaneness”, “humaneness”. A number of terms have a similar meaning in the early cultures of the peoples of the West and East, which indicates the typicality of this feeling that arises in relationships between people. The classical approach to the definition of love was formulated by Plato in his dialogue “The Symposium”. Here, for the first time, the idea of the transformative and ordering power of love in relation to the chaos surrounding people is substantiated.
In Christianity, love takes on the characteristics of a universal principle that should determine human thoughts and actions. The New Testament proclaimed a moral ideal to which man should strive: “love your neighbor as yourself” (Matt. 22:39). Representatives of Russian thought paid a lot of attention to the theme of love (F. M. Dostoevsky, Vl. Solovyov, V. V. Rozanov, etc.). Belief in the all-encompassing power of love that knows no exceptions is the essence of the ethics of nonviolence (L.N. Tolstoy, M. Gandhi, M.L. King). Love has a universal status, extending not only to a person, but also to any form of manifestation of life, in the ethics of reverence for the life of A. Schweitzer.
According to
V.S.
Solovyov –
“
from the point of view of moral philosophy, love is a complex phenomenon
,
the elements of which are
: 1)
pity
,
prevailing in parental love
; 2)
reverence
,
which prevails in filial love and the religious love that follows from it
; 3)
a feeling of shame exclusively inherent in a person
, which,
in combination with the first two elements
-
pity and reverence - forms the human form of sexual or marital love
.
In the ordinary sense, love is the natural attachment of one person to another, with a subsequent desire to share all the delights, as well as the possible hardships of a joint situation. Love is the willingness to sacrifice everything, not excluding life itself, if this is necessary for the good of people close to a person. From love comes the dependence of a person’s virtues and mental strength, which direct his actions and actions in strict accordance with the requirements of the moral law. Love for one's neighbors serves as the source, the moral beginning of all good and kind endeavors for a person. Love is the moral foundation of human society. The strength of consistency and the strength of people’s actions and beliefs depend on the strength of love. Through love, peace, friendship and harmony between people are planted and maintained in society.
The meaning of love in human life
The need for love - to love and be loved - is one of the basic ones, therefore all individuals strive to experience this feeling and find the person who is meant for them. Although many people, having experienced disappointment in a partner or mental anguish due to unrequited feelings, would prefer to never fall in love, so as never to suffer again.
But if this happens, then the meaning of all human existence, if not disappear, will be greatly modified. Indeed, at the basis of many phenomena of life lies precisely this feeling. It motivates people to improve themselves, promotes spiritual growth and human progress in general.
What are the stages of love?
In total, there are 7 stages that love goes through; they may not occur to everyone, but they do occur:
- Falling in love
is a short period when lovers are immersed in a state of euphoria, they notice only all the good things, do not see the negative sides of each other, but everything quickly ends when people start living together or planning a wedding, or encounter everyday troubles;
Satiation
- lovers begin to “evaluate their love” differently, coexistence begins, which can lead to separation or unity of the family;
Disgust
is a real test for lovers, they become selfish, reciprocity disappears, without this stage it is impossible to step into another world, true awareness of love;
Humility
- lovers begin to adequately look at each other, accept their soul mate as a separate person, with all the vices and shortcomings, begins a period of self-improvement, improvement and mutual understanding;
Service
- people completely immerse themselves in the world of bliss, the personification of wisdom and piety, support each other in any endeavors;
Friendship
- accepting each other as a loved one, lovers devote more time to their other half, get to know themselves again, build new relationships full of madness;
Love
- partners have come a long way, learned to appreciate and love truly, now they perceive each other as a single whole, without mercantile attitudes and cunning tricks!
Do you want to give a memorable gift to your beloved husband/boyfriend? Give him the book “100 Reasons Why I Love You!” - he will be delighted with such a gift, believe me!
It is especially important to realize the fact that love does not ask for anything - this feeling gives warmth, spiritual harmony and pleasure. If a blind love addiction arises, then you need to get rid of it, no matter how difficult it may be at first!
Such feelings force the partner to be with the chosen one all the time, to be jealous, to forgive even in the most difficult cases, which will ultimately lead to the destruction of the individual and even fatal death.
Stages of development of love
In psychology, there are five main stages that lead a couple to the emergence of strong love. However, many couples break up because they cannot go through these stages. Let's take a closer look at them:
- Love. You feel an incredible desire to spend time with a person. This is accompanied by passion, attraction, a storm of emotions (12-17 months);
- Formation of you as a couple. At this stage, people make a conscious decision to continue the relationship - start a family, children, get married, live together;
- Frustration and withdrawal. It is during this period that the largest number of separations and divorces occur. You begin to focus on your partner’s shortcomings and feel irritated. This is where the main conflicts arise;
- Working on love/humility. You begin to accept a person’s shortcomings, try to find a compromise with each other, smooth out corners. You accept love for a person despite annoying traits;
- Love. It is at this stage that closeness and unity are formed.
Thus, we can conclude that love is a very long process, which is accompanied by conflict situations and getting used to each other.
Achieving true love can take years
Celebrities named Love
- Lyubov Petrova Orlova (1902-1975) - famous film actress, idol of the Russian public of the 1930-1950s.
- Lyubov Polishchuk - (1949-2006) Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, starred in more than 80 films.
- Lyubov Egorova - (born 1966) famous Soviet and Russian skier, winner of six Olympic gold medals (1991,1994).
- Lyubov Wasserman, Lyube Vaserman - (1907-1975) Soviet Jewish poetess.
- Lyubov Khavkina - (1871-1949) Soviet theorist and organizer of library science.
- Lyubov Popova - (1889-1924) Russian and Soviet painter, painted in the avant-garde and graphic genres.
- Lyubov Voronkova - (1906-1976) Soviet children's writer, author of many children's books and a series of historical stories for children.
- Lyubov Capital - (1884-1934) nee - Ershova; Russian poetess, playwright.
- Lyubov Pustilnik - (d. 2012) Russian literary critic.
- Lyubov Dobzhanskaya - (1905/1908-1980) Russian and Soviet theater and film actress.
- Lyubov Gakkebusch - (1888-1947) Ukrainian Soviet theater actress, teacher and translator.
- Lyubov Sokolova - (1921-2001) Soviet and Russian actress, People's Artist of the USSR (1990).
- Lyubov Axelrod - (1868–1946) Russian and Soviet philosopher and literary critic.
- Lyubov Gurevich - (1866–1940) Russian writer, literary and theater critic, public figure.
What is love
Love is the most intimate of all possible feelings, an endless attraction to a person, a desire to be close, to show care and sacrifice towards him. And at the same time, do not fall into dependence - remain an integral, internally free person.
All thoughts about it come down to approximately this definition of love: from philosophical essays to pop romance novels. And this is an example of so-called “healthy” love - when feelings for another person do not deprive you of your mind and do not force you to think and act to the detriment of your own interests.
But each person’s understanding of love is individual, and this is absolutely normal. Someone wants to spend every morning with their soulmate, while others are content with meeting once every couple of months, but each of them loves their partner in their own way - at least if they themselves consider it love.
It's hard to describe love in words. To understand love, it must be experienced, and not everyone who has experienced it admits this to themselves, but everyone who admits it to themselves has definitely experienced it. Although supporters of the glass of water theory refute this feeling in principle. They only see sexual satisfaction.
