Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A winged figure of a child representing love and/or its power
- n. Physical love; sexual desire
- n. a type of love that seeks fulfillment without violation or something else
- n. psychiatry libido
- n. psychiatry collective instincts for self-preservation; life drive
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek ἔρως (erōs, "love, desire"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The Greek word eros literally means “that which brings together.””
“ The word erotic comes from the Greek word eros, which is the term for sexual love itself, as well as the gods name.”
“By eros I mean of course that state which we call "being in love"; or, if you prefer, that kind of love which lovers are "in"...”
The Huffington Post: Judith Acosta: The Necessary Death of Romance
“We had moved past what the Ancient Greeks called eros (physical love) and philios (friendship love), and had made our way to agape (unconditional love).”
“They are in search of romantic and passionate love, eros, which is something that God wishes for all of us.”
“Although Ryle professes great interest in Plato's understanding of the soul, he pays no attention to eros, which is undeniably for Plato one of the most important constituents of the soul.”
“Philosophers have written of three types of love called eros, agape and philia.”
“This concept of Umtrieb is worth reflecting on, since it refers not to any specific drive such as eros or thanatos, to take Žižek's narrower gloss on the expansive and contractive forces, but to the very structure of drive as a”
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)
“Love is not lust, I concede that point to you readily although we could go Greek and say that there is eros which is love and there is agape which is love, but love is an emotion.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eros’.
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Muse's tacet ,to learn
Music brings silence's to raging thoughts and temperament , calm, as it is our object of definite purpose.
tacet, cadence, tempo, treble clef, penultimate, lexicon, origin, orchestra, kantele, magus, eros, coalesce and 248 more...
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 569 more...
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::: I like :::
soliloquy, eros, agape, solipsism, palimpsest, fabulist, lore, raconteur, harbinger, anamnesis, sattvic, comprecation and 20 more...
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A List of Mythical Proportions
All of these things exist, I swear!
unicorn, pegasus, cyclops, yeti, abominable snowman, bigfoot, phoenix, thunderbird, sea serpent, ogre, grue, troll and 138 more...
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cross words
the good ole boys of the nyt crossword puzzle
oleo, oreo, stlo, amie, ares, eros, erato, sloe, ogee, apse, enola, ecru and 94 more...
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Hitch Words
Words from the lexicon of Christopher Hitchens
propinquity, fratricide, factitious, vitiate, sectarianism, ostensible, atavistic, sephardic, doyen, palpable, encephalitic, fastidious and 188 more...
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madamepsychosis's Words
mollify, salubrious, prandial, coup de grace, ineluctable, metempsychosis, pedant, conatus, oeuvre, laconic, solipsism, vapid and 265 more...
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the gods must be crazy!
quetzalcoatl, baron-samedi, loa, orichas, arianrhod, aine, amaethon, annwn, arnemetia, balor, badbh, bean nighe and 1061 more...
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DYSLEXIC'S DREAD
Words That Make Sense in Reverse Too! Bad news for a dyslexic, 'cause s/he's got no clue if s/he read the word correctly or not, as opposed to a palindrome (i.e., no mistake possible, cf. "Dyslexic...
tool, lever, nap, pool, leer, leek, desserts, strop, doom, ukiah, yaws, ward and 213 more...
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Underworld
Don DeLillo
roily, reverie, slidy, bandido, mohair, brilliantine, stupe, juke step, jowly, juke, wicket, quidbit and 391 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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In Gods Name
re, khepera, nut, geb, hathor, seth, horus, min, osiris, anubis, sekhmet, ama-terasu and 104 more...
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Love
A general collection of the sort of words that make me happy when I hear or read them in everyday conversation and writing.
velleities, discombobulated, boggle, breathtaking, enchanting, siren, luscious, moment, fiasco, delirium, darling, ethereal and 215 more...
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Polymorphously Pretentious Patois
epicurean, hermitage, virago, aplomb, riposte, undulate, calliope, terpsichore, polyphonic, quixotic, sanguine, chimera and 81 more...
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That's Amore
Words about looooove (and the things that masquerade as love)!
love, desire, infatuation, affection, romance, amor, agape, eros, philia, partnership, companionship, lust and 13 more...
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on gods and religions
hephaestion, olympian, zeus, hera, achilles, odysseus, iliad, homeric, narcissus, aphrodite, diana, apollo and 60 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for eros.
asativum Yikes. Oct 19, 2008
bilby Eros? Sidney, my end is sore! Oct 18, 2008
oroboros Sore in reverse. Jul 22, 2007