Love vs Content - What's the difference?
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(label) Strong affection.
# An intense feeling of affection and care towards another person.
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# A deep or abiding liking for something.
# A profound and caring attraction towards someone.
#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(countable) The object of one’s romantic feelings; a darling or sweetheart.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
(colloquial)
(euphemistic) A sexual desire; sexual activity.
*1986, Ben Elton & al., ":
*:—What think you, my lord, of... love ?
*:—You mean ‘rumpy-pumpy’.
(obsolete) A thin silk material.
* 1664 , (Robert Boyle), Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours,
A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba .
To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VI
* 2013 February 26, and (Nate Ruess), (Just Give Me a Reason) :
To need, thrive on.
(colloquial) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like .
To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
* John 3:16
* Matthew: 37-38
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, title= To derive delight from a fact or situation.
To lust for.
(euphemistic) To have sex with, (perhaps from make love.)
To praise; commend.
To praise as of value; prize; set a price on.
(racquet sports) Zero, no score.
* The Field
* John Betjeman, A Subaltern's Love Song
(uncountable) That which is contained.
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, title= Subject matter; substance.
* Grew
The amount of material contained; contents.
Capacity for holding.
* (Francis Bacon)
(mathematics) The n''-dimensional space contained by an ''n''-dimensional polytope (called ''volume'' in the case of a polyhedron and ''area in the case of a polygon).
Satisfied; in a state of satisfaction.
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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment.
Satisfaction; contentment
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) acquiescence without examination
* Alexander Pope
That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
* Shakespeare
(UK, House of Lords) An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmate vote.
(UK, House of Lords) A member who votes in assent.
To give contentment or satisfaction; to satisfy; to gratify; to appease.
* Bible, Mark xv. 15
* I. Watts
(obsolete) To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between love and content
is that love is money while content is (uncountable) that which is contained or content can be satisfaction; contentment.As an adjective content is
satisfied; in a state of satisfaction.As a verb content is
to give contentment or satisfaction; to satisfy; to gratify; to appease.love
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . The closing-of-a-letter sense is presumably a truncation of With love or the like. The verb is from (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
- He on his side / Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love / Hung over her enamoured.
- Open the temple gates unto my love .
- Such a kind of transparency, as that of a Sive, a piece of Cyprus, or a Love -Hood.
Synonyms
* (sense) baby, darling, lover, pet, sweetheart, honey, love bird * (term of address) mate, lover. darling, sweetyAntonyms
* (strong affection) hate, hatred, angst; malice, spite * (absence of love) indifferenceVerb
(lov)- I wanted to take her in my arms and tell her how I loved her, and had taken her hand from the rail and started to draw her toward me when Olson came blundering up on deck with his bedding.
- Just give me a reason, / just a little bit's enough, / just a second we're not broken, just bent / and we can learn to love again.
- For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
- You shall love' the Lord your God with your whole heart, and your whole mind, and your whole soul; you shall ' love your neighbor as yourself.
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Antonyms
* hate, despiseDerived terms
* all's fair in love and war * cupboard love * in love * I love you * fall in love * first love * lady love * love affair * love at first sight * love bird/lovebird * love bite/lovebite * love bomb * love bug * lovebunny * love child * loved-up * love egg * love feast * love game * love grass * love handle * love-hate * love-in * love-in-a-mist * love is blind * love life * lovely * love-making * love match * love nest * love potion * lover * love rat * lovertine * love seat * loveship * love-shyness * lovesick * love song * lovestone * love story * love tap * love toy * love triangle * lovey-dovey * loving kindness * loyal love * make love * unrequited love * no love lost * puppy love * tough love * true love * unconditional loveSee also
* charityEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . See also (l).Verb
(lov)Etymology 3
From the phrase Neither for love nor for money , meaning "nothing". The previously held belief that it originated from the (etyl) term , due to its shape, is no longer widely accepted.Noun
(-)- So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.
- He won the match by three sets to love .
- Love -thirty, love-forty, oh! weakness of joy, / The speed of a swallow, the grace of a boy, / With carefullest carelessness, gaily you won, / I am weak from your loveliness, Joan Hunter Dunn.
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English
(wikipedia content)Etymology 1
From (etyl) ; see contain.Noun
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- I shall prove these writingsauthentic, and the contents true, and worthy of a divine original.
- Strong ships, of great content .
Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) content, from (etyl) ; see contain.Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* contentmentSynonyms
* (satisfied) contented, pleased, satisfiedEtymology 3
From (etyl) , from (contenter); see content as a verb.Noun
(en noun)- They were in a state of sleepy content after supper.
- Such is the fullness of my heart's content .
- The sense they humbly take upon content .
- So will I in England work your grace's full content .
Derived terms
* discontent * malcontentEtymology 4
From (etyl) contenter, from ; see content as an adjective.Verb
(en verb)- You can't have any more - you'll have to content yourself with what you already have.
- Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them.
- Do not content yourselves with obscure and confused ideas, where clearer are to be attained.
- Come the next Sabbath, and I will content you.