perfect love

Ideal, complete affection

Perfect love is love without flaw, reservation, or condition—complete and unconditional devotion.

The phrase appears often in religious contexts, where perfect love is considered divine: Perfect love casts out fear.

In everyday use, it describes an idealized romantic or familial bond, though the concept is more aspiration than reality: She believed in perfect love, despite the evidence.

Related

eternal · til death do us part · bliss · tenderness · cherish · heart and soul · adoration · intimacy · trust · selfless · pure · heart · embrace · forever · compassion · grace · divine · sacrifice

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Opposites
love quality

perfect lovehatred

Intense hostile aversion

pure hatred · toxic love · conditional love · lovelessness · cold-heartedness

emotional orientation

perfect lovehatred

Intense hostile aversion

hate · pure hatred · malevolence · cruelty · loathing

spiritual/moral state

perfect lovemortal sin

Grace-destroying spiritual offense

total depravity · damnation · spiritual death · hell · hardness of heart

Family

perfect, love, perfection, perfectly, imperfect, imperfection, imperfectly, perfectible, perfectibility

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G