Love vs. Appreciate — What's the Difference?

Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, 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, which differs from the love of food.

Recognize the full worth of

A strong feeling of affection and concern toward another person, as that arising from kinship or close friendship.

Understand (a situation) fully; grasp the full implications of

A strong feeling of affection and concern for another person accompanied by sexual attraction.

Rise in value or price

A feeling of devotion or adoration toward God or a god.

To recognize the quality, significance, or magnitude of

A feeling of kindness or concern by God or a god toward humans.

To be fully aware of or sensitive to; realize

Often Love(Christianity) Charity.

To be thankful or show gratitude for

Sexual desire or activity

To admire greatly; value.

An instance of being in love

To raise in value or price, especially over time.

A person for whom one has strong feelings of affection

To increase in value or price, especially over time.

Used as a term of endearment for such a person.

(transitive) To be grateful or thankful for.

An intense emotional attachment to something, as to a pet or treasured object.

(transitive) To view as valuable.

An expression of one's affection

(transitive) To be fully conscious of; understand; be aware of; detect.

A strong predilection or enthusiasm

To increase in value.

The object of such an enthusiasm

To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value.

Love(Mythology) Eros or Cupid.

To raise the value of; to increase the market price of; - opposed to depreciate.

(Sports) A score of zero, as in tennis.

To be sensible of; to distinguish.

To feel love for (a person)

Recognize with gratitude; be grateful for

To feel sexual love for (a person).

Be fully aware of; realize fully;

To feel devotion to (God or a god).

Hold dear;

To feel or show kindness or concern to (a person). Used of God or a god.

Gain in value;

To have an intense emotional attachment to

Increase the value of;

To embrace or caress

To have sexual intercourse with.

To like or desire enthusiastically

To thrive on; need

To feel love or sexual love for another.

(uncountable) A deep caring for the existence of another.

(uncountable) Strong affection.

A profound and caring affection towards someone.

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

A feeling of intense attraction towards someone.

A deep or abiding liking for something; an enthusiasm for something.

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

A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.

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

(euphemistic) Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.

(euphemistic) Sexual activity.

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

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

(obsolete) A thin silk material.

A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.

Zero, no score.

Nothing; no recompense.

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

(transitive) To need, thrive on.

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

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

(transitive) To derive delight from a fact or situation.

To have sex with (perhaps from make love).

A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preëminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters.

Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex.

Courtship; - chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage.

Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or desire; fondness; good will; - opposed to hate; often with of and an object.

Due gratitude and reverence to God.

The object of affection; - often employed in endearing address; as, he held his love in his arms; his greatest love was reading.

Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus.

A thin silk stuff.

A climbing species of Clematis (Clematis Vitalba).

Nothing; no points scored on one side; - used in counting score at tennis, etc.

Sexual intercourse; - a euphemism.

To have a feeling of love for; to regard with affection or good will; as, to love one's children and friends; to love one's country; to love one's God.

To regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that of one sex for the other.

To take delight or pleasure in; to have a strong liking or desire for, or interest in; to be pleased with; to like; as, to love books; to love adventures.

To have the feeling of love; to be in love.

A strong positive emotion of regard and affection;

Any object of warm affection or devotion;

A beloved person; used as terms of endearment

A deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction;

A score of zero in tennis or squash;

Sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people;

Have a great affection or liking for;

Get pleasure from;

Be enamored or in love with;

Have sexual intercourse with;