Have you ever wondered why there are so many different metaphors used to describe love? This may be the reason.
, which carried the sense of caring or desire. While our Western sense of love as having a deep connection with someone developed from this sense of caring, the modern wordIndeed, in looking at the various categories of love, psychologists have posited several different main types or"flavors," ranging from familial love to platonic love to self-love to
. Languages often don’t have specific words to delineate among these various categories and vary extensively in which types they encode in their lexicon and how well they translate across other languages., translating roughly into"holding," which denotes a form of nurturing and caring love between parent and child.
Because English uses just one word for a broad range of distinct types—we can love our friends and we can love our partners and just as readily as we can love apple pie—it is not surprising that subtle differences in how we talk about loving those things might reveal qualitative differences in the types of love we are expressing.Lexical and semantic gaps exist in a language when there are certain concepts that speakers want to talk about for which they do not have words.
What is this difference? The idea of being"in love" as opposed to simply"love." In a study in the 1990s, which presented people with consecutive prompts asking them to list those they loved vs. those with whom they were in love , researchers discovered that participants seem to view these as conceptually distinct categories.
The difference in large part seemed to rest on whether or not there was sexual desire. The researchers also asked participants to list people they were sexually attracted to, finding there was a large cross-over in listings between the"in love" category and the"sexual desire" category—but much less so between the"love" category and the"sexual desire" category.
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