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For other uses see Love .
The stylized heart symbol is a traditional European icon representing love.
Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection. 1 The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings states and attitudes ranging from generic pleasure to intense interpersonal attraction . 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 love usually 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 2 to the profound oneness or devotion of religious love. 3 Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and owing to its central psychological importance is one of the most common themes in the creative arts.
Fraternal love . Museum of Anthropology in Xalapa Veracruz Mexico.
