Love incorporates a wide range of enthusiastic and mental states, regularly emphatically and decidedly experienced, extending from the most grand righteousness or great propensity, the most profound relational fondness and to the least complex delight. A case of this scope of implications is that the affection for a mother varies from the adoration for a mate contrasts from the adoration for sustenance. Most usually, love alludes to a sentiment of solid fascination and enthusiastic connection. Love can likewise be an excellence speaking to human thoughtfulness, empathy, and warmth, as "the unselfish faithful and kind worry for the benefit of another".It may likewise depict empathetic and friendly activities towards different people, one's self or creatures.

Antiquated Greek savants recognized four types of affection: basically, familial love (in Greek, storge), cordial love (philia), sentimental love (eros), and celestial love (agape). Present day creators have recognized further assortments of adoration: lonely love, charmed love, self esteem, and dignified love. Non-Western customs have likewise recognized variations or symbioses of these states. Love has extra religious or otherworldly importance. This assorted variety of employments and implications joined with the unpredictability of the sentiments included has intercourse strangely hard to reliably characterize, contrasted with other enthusiastic states.

Love in its different structures goes about as a noteworthy facilitator of relational connections and, inferable from its focal mental significance, is a standout amongst the most well-known subjects in the inventive expressions.

Love has been proposed to be a capacity to keep individuals together against dangers and to encourage the continuation of the species.