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Eros vs Venus - What's the difference?

eros | venus |

As a noun eros

is eros (physical love).

As a proper noun venus is

venus (goddess).

eros

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A winged figure of a child representing love and/or its power
  • Physical love; sexual desire
  • a type of love that seeks fulfillment without violation or something else
  • (psychiatry) libido
  • (psychiatry) collective instincts for self-preservation; life drive
  • Antonyms

    * (life drive) (death drive), Thanatos

    Anagrams

    * ----

    venus

    Translingual

    (rfimage)

    Proper noun

  • Hypernyms

    * (genus) (Veneridae Hypernyms)

    Hyponyms

    * For the numerous species see ("Venus" species on Wikimedia)