passionate love
Intense romantic fervor
Passionate love is intense romantic and sexual attraction marked by longing, idealization, and emotional volatility.
Distinguished from companionate love, which develops gradually through familiarity and shared experience, passionate love burns hot from the start: Their passionate love consumed them both.
Psychologists note it typically peaks early in relationships, though it may resurge throughout a couple's life together.
- erosLife and love instinct
- burning desireIntense emotional craving
- embraceHold closely in arms
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- desireIntense wanting
amour · forever yours · obsession · kiss · ardor · infatuation · head over heels · crave · all-consuming · euphoria · lovesick · devotion · romance · soulmate · star-crossed lovers · fever · swooning · yearning
- loveadoration, affection, amour, attraction, beloved
- romanceamor, boyfriend, courting, girlfriend, besos
- Classic RomancePride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Emma, Romeo and Juliet
- VerismoPagliacci, Italian opera, raw emotion, tragic endings, everyday life
- Gothic LiteratureEdgar Allan Poe, Jane Eyre, Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights, The Tell-Tale Heart
passionate loveindifference
Lack of interest
apathy · emotional detachment · emotional numbness · dispassion · coolness
passionate lovelack of attraction