romantic love

a type of love in which intimacy and passion are prominent features. Although the loved party is often idealized, research indicates that the lover’s sexual arousal is an especially important component of this type of love. In some taxonomies of love, romantic love is identified with passionate love and distinguished from companionate love; in others, it is seen as involving elements of both. See also limerence; love scale; triangular theory of love.

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Psychology term of the day

November 25th 2024

noetic

adj. describing a state of knowledge or memory in which there is awareness of the known or remembered thing but not of one’s personal experience in relation to that thing. Noetic consciousness is a kind of consciousness in which one is aware of facts, concepts, words, and meanings but not of any connection to one’s own experience. Compare anoetic; autonoetic. [defined by Endel Tulving]