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The word polyamorous first appeared in an article by Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, "A Bouquet of Lovers", published in May 1990 in Green Egg Magazine, as "poly-amorous". [10] In May 1992, Jennifer L. Wesp created the Usenet newsgroup alt.polyamory , and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) cites the proposal to create that group as the first ...
The word polyamory does not actually appear in "A Bouquet of Lovers", referenced above. The article does use the hyphenated "poly-amorous". The article consistently uses "polygamy" as the counterpart to "monogamy". There are no verifiable sources showing the word polyamory in common use until after alt.polyamory was created.
The word "love" can have a variety of related but distinct meanings in different contexts. Many other languages use multiple words to express some of the different concepts that in English are denoted as "love"; one example is the plurality of Greek concepts for "love" (agape, eros, philia, storge). [8]
Based on the content of that review, they proposed a biological definition of romantic love: [6] Romantic love is a motivational state typically associated with a desire for long-term mating with a particular individual. It occurs across the lifespan and is associated with distinctive cognitive, emotional, behavioral, social, genetic, neural ...
Limerence is a state of mind resulting from romantic feelings for another person. It typically involves intrusive and melancholic thoughts, or tragic concerns for the object of one's affection, along with a desire for the reciprocation of one's feelings and to form a relationship with the object of love.
“Just because we don't experience romantic attraction easily doesn't mean we don't have the capacity for love and emotional connection," Smith says. "We just need to take the time to build those ...
The romantic and sexuality spectrums are wide-ranging, and to ring in Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week, Yahoo Life sat down with a few aromantics (“aros” for short) to discuss what ...
Though there are more Greek words for love, variants and possibly subcategories, a general summary considering these Ancient Greek concepts is: Agape (ἀγάπη, agápē [1]) means, when translated literally, affection, as in "greet with affection" and "show affection for the dead". [2] The verb form of the word "agape" goes as far back as Homer.