Pride vs. Love — What's the Difference?

Pride is positive emotional response or attitude to something with an intimate connection to oneself, due to its perceived value. Oxford defines it amongst other things as "the quality of having an excessively high opinion of oneself or one's own importance" This may be related to one's own abilities or achievements, positive characteristics of friends or family, or one's country.

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.

A sense of one's own proper dignity or value; self-respect.

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

Pleasure or satisfaction taken in an achievement, possession, or association

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

Arrogant or disdainful conduct or treatment; haughtiness.

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

A cause or source of pleasure or satisfaction; the best of a group or class

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

The most successful or thriving condition; prime

Often Love(Christianity) Charity.

An excessively high opinion of oneself; conceit.

Sexual desire or activity

Mettle or spirit in horses.

An instance of being in love

(Zoology) A group of lions, usually consisting of several related females and their offspring and a small number of unrelated adult males.

A person for whom one has strong feelings of affection

A flamboyant or impressive group

Used as a term of endearment for such a person.

To indulge (oneself) in a feeling of pleasure or satisfaction

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

The quality or state of being proud; an unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in terms of talents, looks, wealth, importance etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others.

An expression of one's affection

A sense of one's own worth, and scorn for what is beneath or unworthy of oneself; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; rejection of shame

A strong predilection or enthusiasm

Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation.

The object of such an enthusiasm

That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-congratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.

Love(Mythology) Eros or Cupid.

Show; ostentation; glory.

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

Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory.

To feel love for (a person)

Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.

To feel sexual love for (a person).

Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female animal.

To feel devotion to (God or a god).

A company of lions or other large felines.

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

(zoology) The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.

To have an intense emotional attachment to

(reflexive) To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it.

To embrace or caress

A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); - called also prid, and sandpiper.

To have sexual intercourse with.

The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others.

To like or desire enthusiastically

A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; - in a good sense.

To thrive on; need

Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain.

To feel love or sexual love for another.

That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.

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

Show; ostentation; glory.

(uncountable) Strong affection.

Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life.

A profound and caring affection towards someone.

Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.

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

To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; - used reflexively.

A feeling of intense attraction towards someone.

To be proud; to glory.

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

A feeling of self-respect and personal worth

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

Satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements;

A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.

The trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards

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

A group of lions

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

Unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)

(euphemistic) Sexual activity.

Be proud of;

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;