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Love is a different kind of emotional and mental states, usually in a strong and positive experience, ranges from deepest interpersonal affection to simple pleasure. An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother is love of a woman separated from love of food. Most commonly, love refers to an emotion of strong attraction and personal attachment. Love can also be a virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection- "the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another". It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions toward other humans, one's self or animals.
Ancient Greek philosophers identified four forms of love: essentially, familial love (in Greek, storge), friendly love (philia), romantic love (eros), and divine love (agape). Modern authors have distinguished more varieties of love: infatuated love, self-love, and courtly love. Non-Western traditions are also distinguished variants or symbioses of these states. Love has extra religious or spiritual meaning. This diversity of uses and meanings of complexity of feelings involved makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, compared to other emotional states.
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