Love vs. Like

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Main Difference

The main difference between Love and Like is that the Love is a strong, positive emotion based on affection and Like is a English word

  • Love

    Love encompasses a variety of strong and positive emotional and mental states, ranging from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection and to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse differs from the love of food. Most commonly, love refers to a feeling of strong attraction and emotional attachment. Love can also be a virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection, as “the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another”. It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, one’s self or animals.Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts. Love has been postulated to be a function to keep human beings together against menaces and to facilitate the continuation of the species.Ancient Greek philosophers identified five forms of love: essentially, familial love (in Greek, Storge), friendly love (Philia), romantic love (Eros), guest love (Xenia) and divine love (Agape). Modern authors have distinguished further varieties of love: unrequited love, infatuated love, self-love, and courtly love. Asian cultures have also distinguished Ren, Kama, Bhakti, Mettā, Ishq, Chesed, and other variants or symbioses of these states. Love has additional religious or spiritual meaning. This diversity of uses and meanings combined with the complexity of the feelings involved makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, compared to other emotional states.

  • Like

    In English, the word like has a very flexible range of uses, ranging from conventional to non-standard. It can be used as a noun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, particle, conjunction, hedge, filler, and quotative.

Wikipedia
  • Love (noun)

    Strong affection.

  • Love (noun)

    A profound and caring affection towards someone.

    “A mother’s love is not easily shaken.”

    “My husband’s love is the most important thing in my life.”

  • Love (noun)

    Affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well-being.

  • Love (noun)

    A feeling of intense attraction towards someone.

    “I have never been in love as much as I have with you.”

  • Love (noun)

    A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.

  • Love (noun)

    A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.

    “Hello love, how can I help you?”

  • Love (noun)

    A thing, activity{{,}} etc which is the object of one’s deep liking or enthusiasm.

  • Love (noun)

    Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.

  • Love (noun)

    Sexual activity.

  • Love (noun)

    An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.

  • Love (noun)

    Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young.

  • Love (noun)

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  • Love (noun)

    A thin silk material.

  • Love (noun)

    A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba”.

  • Love (noun)

    Zero, no score.

    “So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.”

  • Love (verb)

    To have a strong affection for (someone or something).

    “I love my spouse.”

    “I love you!”

  • Love (verb)

    To need, thrive on.

    “Mold loves moist, dark places.”

  • Love (verb)

    To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.

    “I love walking barefoot on wet grass;”

    “I’d love to join the team;”

    “I love what you’ve done with your hair”

  • Love (verb)

    To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).

  • Love (verb)

    To derive delight from a fact or situation.

    “I love the fact that the coffee shop now offers fat-free chai latte.”

  • Love (verb)

    To lust for.

  • Love (verb)

    To have sex with, (perhaps from make love.)

    “I wish I could love her all night long.”

  • Love (verb)

    To praise; commend.

  • Love (verb)

    To praise as of value; prize; set a price on.

  • Like (verb)

    To please.

  • Like (verb)

    To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.

    “I like hamburgers”

    “I like skiing in winter”

    “I like the Seattle Mariners this season”

  • Like (verb)

    To derive pleasure of, by or with someone or something.

  • Like (verb)

    To prefer and maintain (an action) as a regular habit or activity.

    “I like to go to the dentist every six months”

    “She likes to keep herself physically fit”

    “we like to keep one around the office just in case”

  • Like (verb)

    To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to be (in a specified condition).

  • Like (verb)

    To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly.

    “He liked to have been too late.”

  • Like (verb)

    To find attractive; to prefer the company of; to have mild romantic feelings for.

    “I really like Sandra but don’t know how to tell her.”

  • Like (verb)

    To liken; to compare.

  • Like (verb)

    To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote.

    “I liked my friend’s last status on Facebook.”

    “I can’t stand Bloggs’ tomato ketchup, but I liked it on Facebook so I could enter a competition.”

  • Like (noun)

    Something that a person likes (prefers).

    “Tell me your likes and dislikes.”

  • Like (noun)

    An individual vote showing support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet.

  • Like (noun)

    (sometimes as the likes of) Someone similar to a given person, or something similar to a given object; a comparative; a type; a sort.

    “There were bowls full of sweets, chocolates and the like.”

    “It was something the likes of which I had never seen before.”

  • Like (noun)

    The stroke that equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side.

    “to play the like”

  • Like (adjective)

    Similar.

    “My partner and I have like minds.”

  • Like (adjective)

    Likely; probable.

  • Like (adverb)

    For example, such as: to introduce an example or list of examples.

    “There are lots of birds, like ducks and gulls, in this park.”

  • Like (adverb)

    Likely.

  • Like (adverb)

    In a like or similar manner.

    “Like the woman down the street so confidently sang, she wanted to be able to too.”

  • Like (conjunction)

    As, the way.

  • Like (conjunction)

    As if; as though.

    “It looks like you’ve finished the project.”

    “It seemed like you didn’t care.”

  • Like (preposition)

    Similar to, reminiscent of.

    “These hamburgers taste like leather.”

  • Like (interjection)

    Used to place emphasis upon a statement.

    “divint ye knaa, like?”

Wiktionary
  • Like (preposition)

    having the same characteristics or qualities as; similar to

    “she looked nothing like Audrey Hepburn”

    “he used to have a car like mine”

    “they were like brothers”

  • Like (preposition)

    in the manner of; in the same way or to the same degree as

    “he was screaming like a banshee”

  • Like (preposition)

    in a way appropriate to

    “students were angry at being treated like children”

  • Like (preposition)

    such as one might expect from; characteristic of

    “just like you to put a damper on people’s enjoyment”

  • Like (preposition)

    used in questions to ask about the characteristics or nature of someone or something

    “what’s she like?”

    “what is it like to be a tuna fisherman?”

  • Like (preposition)

    used to draw attention to the nature of an action or event

    “why are you talking about me like that?”

    “I apologize for coming over unannounced like this”

  • Like (preposition)

    such as; for example

    “the cautionary vision of works like Animal Farm and 1984”

  • Like (conjunction)

    in the same way that; as

    “people who change countries like they change clothes”

  • Like (conjunction)

    as though; as if

    “I felt like I’d been kicked by a camel”

  • Like (noun)

    used with reference to a person or thing of the same kind as another

    “the quotations could be arranged to put like with like”

    “I know him—him and his like”

  • Like (noun)

    a thing or things of the same kind (often used to express surprise or for emphasis)

    “did you ever hear the like?”

    “a church interior the like of which he had never seen before”

  • Like (noun)

    the things one likes or prefers

    “a wide variety of likes, dislikes, tastes, and income levels”

  • Like (noun)

    (in the context of social media) an indication of approval of or support for someone or something, expressed by means of a particular icon or link

    “pages that rank well are likely to receive high numbers of likes because they are highly visible in the search engines”

  • Like (adjective)

    (of a person or thing) having similar qualities or characteristics to another person or thing

    “I responded in like manner”

    “the grouping of children of like ability together”

  • Like (adjective)

    (of a portrait or other image) having a faithful resemblance to the original

    “‘Who painted the dog’s picture? It’s very like.’”

  • Like (adverb)

    used in speech as a meaningless filler or to signify the speaker’s uncertainty about an expression just used

    “there was this funny smell—sort of dusty like”

  • Like (adverb)

    used to convey a person’s reported attitude or feelings in the form of direct speech (whether or not representing an actual quotation)

    “so she comes into the room and she’s like ‘Where is everybody?’”

  • Like (adverb)

    in the manner of

    “like as a ship with dreadful storm long tossed”

  • Like (verb)

    find agreeable, enjoyable, or satisfactory

    “people who don’t like reading books”

    “all his classmates liked him”

    “I like to be the centre of attention”

  • Like (verb)

    (in the context of social media) indicate one’s approval of or support for (someone or something) by means of a particular icon or link

    “more than 15,000 Facebook users had liked his page by Monday morning”

  • Like (verb)

    wish for; want

    “I’d like to hire a car”

    “would you like a cup of coffee?”

    “I’d like you to stay”

  • Like (verb)

    used as a polite formula

    “we would like to apologize for the late running of this service”

  • Like (verb)

    feel reluctant to do something

    “I don’t like leaving her on her own too long”

  • Like (verb)

    choose to have (something); prefer

    “how do you like your coffee?”

  • Like (verb)

    feel about or regard (something)

    “how would you like it if it happened to you?”

Oxford Dictionary

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